The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances. . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.