Aleister Crowley Quotes

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Language always gives you away.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

words can never get at the truth.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

Language is a social art.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.