Word Quotes

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

You can stroke people with words.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.[Die Worte sind nur Symbole für die Relationen der Dinge unter einander und zu uns und berühren nirgends die absolute Wahrheit.]

Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within.

Words may shew a man’s Wit, but Actions his Meaning.

Words are for meaning: when you’ve got the meaning, you can forget the words.

Words are and remain an empty sound, and the road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations – naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today – that they are so stored with meanings, with memories, that they have contracted so many famous marriages.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.