“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”
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“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.”
“...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..”
“The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.”
“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”
“A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”