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«Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.»
Author: Benjamin Lee Whorf
(Linguist)
| About:
Language,
Thinking
| Keywords:
determines, language, shapes, think about
«The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
| Keywords:
abstractly, alphabet, alphabets, artists, block, board, chess, Chess Pieces, chess player, conclusion, design, players, poem, shapes, the Block, visual
«Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.»
«Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.»
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
| About:
Cricket
| Keywords:
backward, blackball, cricket ball, equipoise, flat, ghostly, look backward, orb, orbs, shapes, The Empire, twin
«Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.»
Author: Rene Dubois
| Keywords:
shapes
«The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!»
Author: Arthur Rimbaud
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge,
Senses
| Keywords:
accursed, criminal, cultivate, derangement, exhausts, First test, Great Fire, immense, ineffable, inspect, Keep the Faith, learns, patient, poisons, puts, quintessence, reaches, reasoned, scholar, searches, seer, senses, shapes, superhuman, supreme, the senses, The test, thief, torture
«The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aspect, denied, institutionalize, institutionalized, misogyny, shapes, wild
«Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.»
«There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible»
«There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
divinities, divinity, hew, hewing, rough-hew, rough, shapes
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