“There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.”
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Frank Zappa 129
American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and fil… 1940–1993Related quotes
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)
Panic IV
Manifesto Of Letterist Poetry, 1942
“Igor:: Sed-a…
Inga:: Sed-a…
Igor:: Dirty word! He said a dirty word!”
Young Frankenstein
“As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.”
Study of Words; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907.
“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.”
Litterae autem sunt indices rerum, signa verborum, quibus tanta vis est, ut nobis dicta absentium sine voce loquantur. Verba enim per oculos non per aures introducunt.
Bk. 1, ch. 3, sect. 1; p. 96.
Etymologiae
"Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers" (1981)
Source: in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, p. 171
“It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.”
Fragment 50, as translated in the Loeb Classics edition http://www.loebclassics.com/view/heracleitus_philospher-universe/1931/pb_LCL150.471.xml?rskey=IyhfrN&result=8
Variant translations:
Listening not to me but to reason, it is wise to agree that all is one.
Listening not to me but to the Word it is wise to agree that all things are one.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The word translated in these quotes and many others as "The Word" or "Reason", is the greek word λόγος (Logos).
Numbered fragments
“When you seem to be listening to my words, they are your words, with me listening.”
Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
Voces (1943)
11 May 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)