Literature Quotes

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"Language games reveal how meaning is embedded in social practice."
Searle, John
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"Language shapes thought, but thought also shapes language in recursive ways."
Searle, John
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"Language is not a mirror of reality but a tool for negotiating reality."
Searle, John
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"Language enables us to transcend immediate experience and imagine other worlds."
Searle, John
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"The contemplation of virtue in literature and history is a form of moral education."
Foot, Philippa
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"Literature holds up a mirror to humanity, showing us who we are."
Davidson, Donald
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"Literature is the fingerprints of human consciousness across time."
Wisdom, John
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"Literature is the witness stand where human experience testifies."
Wisdom, John
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"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives without leaving our chair."
Wisdom, John
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"Literature is the map by which we navigate the terrain of human experience."
Wisdom, John
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"Literature is the most beautiful and effective instrument of the human spirit."
Moore, George Edward
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"One should turn pale reading Dante, not from the excitement but from the revelation."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing it to explicit doctrine."
Arendt, Hannah
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"One of the great advantages of a writer's life is that it is a good cure for boredom."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Literature is the conversation across centuries between minds and hearts."
Wisdom, John
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"Literature is immortality found in pages."
Wisdom, John
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"Literature mirrors the soul of a civilization."
Moore, George Edward
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"Literature preserves the texture of human experience across time."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Literature is the voice of the unspoken."
Weil, Simone
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Language is the medium through which we disclose ourselves."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Literature captures the essence of human experience."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Literature is the mirror of the human soul."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Literature allows us to explore the varieties of human existence in a way that abstraction cannot."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"In literature, we find the accumulated wisdom of all ages."
Moore, George Edward
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"Reading is a listening with the whole soul."
Weil, Simone
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"The soul of a nation lives in its myths and stories."
Weil, Simone
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"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives without leaving our chairs."
Moore, George Edward
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"Language awakens consciousness of the infinite."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Language is response-ability."
Levinas, Emmanuel