Literature Quotes

"Silence is the foundation of all language."

"Language reveals and conceals the world simultaneously."

"Language is the deposit of our lived experience, not mere abstraction."

"The institution of language is the institution of reality itself."

"Language is the threshold between individual and collective meaning."

"Literature reveals the human condition."

"Writing is a bridge between isolation and communion."

"The word is not for naming things, but for creating them."

"The role of the writer is to say that war is bad and that people suffer."

"Reading is a dialogue between reader and writer across time."

"Literature reveals truths that logic cannot articulate."

"Language itself is poetry in the essential sense."

"The puzzle of proper names reveals that reference works differently than traditional semantics suggested."

"Language hooks onto reality through use and practice within a community, establishing reference through social institutions."

"The speaker's intention and the semantic content of an utterance are distinct issues that require separate analysis."

"A term can be meaningful without being descriptively analyzable - this is the lesson of Naming and Necessity."

"Natural language reveals metaphysical truths about the world that formal logic alone might obscure."

"Reference-fixing descriptions need not convey the meaning or intension of the terms they help introduce into language."

"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives."

"Writing is a sign of the sign of the word."

"Poetry and philosophy are both paths to the truth of being."

"Poetry dwells in the proximity of being."

"The community which renounces the impulse to share literature, philosophy, and science is well on the way to renouncing culture itself."

"Poetry expresses the fullness of human experience."

"Literature is the mirror of life."

"The work of literature is immortal."

"The voice of the poet is the voice of humanity."

"Literature preserves the human spirit."

"Our passions shape our books; our books shape our passions."

"The function of literature is to represent life."