Utterance quotes
70 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light."
"In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground."
"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic"
"To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds."
"The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art."
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"O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!"
"nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression."
"Utterance is the evidence of foregone study."
"Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent."
"Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate."
"Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance."
"The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before."
"It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends."
"Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance."
"The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word."
