We must make language accountable to the truths of our experience.
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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
The words we use shape our reality. They are the blueprint for our experiences.
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we must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty to transcend words and concepts to be able to encounter reality.
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language.
You must speak in the language of justice.
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
Our perception of reality is also greatly influenced by our words. Words bring our thoughts and beliefs to life and help anchor them into our “realities” through repetition.
our experience is what we attend to
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language.
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.” — ALDOUS HUXLEY
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