Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

  • -- Morris West 莫里斯·韦斯特

自希腊人以来,我们就沉醉于语言之中!我们用语言做了一个笼子,把我们的上帝塞了进去!

相关名言

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

经典与浪漫:家庭争吵的私人语言,一场关于人与自然之间重点分配的死争论。