"Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient."

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Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.

Martin Walser

#Philosophy Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Study Quotes

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”
“A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.”
“All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.”
“... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.”
“The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The challenge is not to be perfectâ€¦itâ€™s to be whole”
“The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.”
“We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.”

Source : Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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