#uma

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

#language #larger #meaningfully #much #only

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

The new limitations are the human ones of perception. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#limitations #new #ones #perception

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#human #human nature #idea #nature #new

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#being #had #human #human being #i

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#fact #half #human #human beings #now

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

#effort #fire #gardener #human #human effort

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't. ↗

— Bradley A. Blakeman

#change #climate #climate change #every #expert