
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Escape from Childhood (1974).
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 67
As quoted in 366 Readings From Islam (2000), edited by Robert Van der Weyer
Context: God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Speech in Leipzig (4 March 1935), as quoted in The Trial of the Germans : An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1997) by Eugene Davidson, p. 234.
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tr. George Long (1888)
The Enchiridion (c. 135)
"Hymn of Amida's Vow" (Chapter 1, p. 4).
No Abode: The Record of Ippen (1997)