Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The menu is not the meal. - Alan W. Watts

  2. Words are the clothes thoughts wear. - Samuel Beckett

  3. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. - George Steiner

  4. Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

  5. Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. - Unknown

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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