Great Throughts Treasury

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Vivekananda, fully Sri or Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta NULL

The goal of all religions is the same, but the language of the teachers differs. The goal is to kill the false “I” so that the real “I,” the Lord, will reign.

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Kill | Language | Lord | Will |

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Albery Allson Whitman

Petition and complaint are the language of imbecility and cowardice – the evidences of that puerile fear which extinguishes the soul.

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Cowardice | Fear | Language | Soul |

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Kawabata Yasunari

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

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Beauty | Language |

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Frans de Waal, fully Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal

It is safe to assume that the actions of our ancestors were guided by gratitude, obligation, retribution, and indignation before they developed enough language capacity for moral discourse.

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Capacity | Enough | Gratitude | Indignation | Language | Obligation | Safe |

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Adrienne Rich, fully Adrienne Cecil Rich

Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity, and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without his ornament.

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Heart | Manners | Modesty | Respect | Reverence | Self | Sensibility | Sentiment |

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Alfred Emmanuel Smith

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

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Man | Manners | Words | Think |

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Find manners are the mantle of fair minds.

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Manners | Modesty | Reverence | Self |

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Our very psychology has been shaken to its foundation. To grasp the meaning of the world today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true nature, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

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Language | Life | Life | Meaning | Nature | Past | Psychology | Reason | World |

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Andrew Martin Fairbairn

Symbols are deeper than words; speak when words become silent; gain where words lose in meaning; and so in hours of holiest worship the Church teaches, by symbols, truth language may not utter.

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Church | Language | Meaning | Truth | Words | Worship |

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Antonio Machado, fully Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

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Language | Think |

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Arthur Koestler

True creativity often starts where language ends.

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Creativity | Ends | Language |

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Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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Language | Thought |

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