Charles Edward Merriam (1874–1953) American political scientist
Source: Systematic Politics, 1943, p. 150-1 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 220-1
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Journal entry (14 May 1915), p. 48
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
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Context: The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse.
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
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Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Under the tropic is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
Upon the Death of the Lord Protector; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) philosopher
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Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) American architect
Source: Kindergarten Chats (1918), Ch. 10 : A Roman Temple
Context: Taste is one of the weaker words in our language. It means a little less than something, a little more than nothing; certainly it conveys no suggestion of potency. It savors of accomplishment, in the fashionable sense, not of power to accomplish in the creative sense. It expresses a familiarity with what is au courant among persons of so-called culture, of so-called good form. It is essentially a second-hand word, and can have no place in the working vocabulary of those who demand thought and action at first hand. To say that a thing is tasty or tasteful is, practically, to say nothing at all.
“If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.”
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
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Interview with John Lennon, December 1969, CBS Television
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