The Shooting of Dan McGrew http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/service_r_w/dan_mcgrew.html (1907)
“Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.”
A New Earth (2005)
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 56, p. 178
“Throw not my words away, as many do;
They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.”
"The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”
“The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."”
Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) ISBN 0-500-20393-8
Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 4
Context: Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices upon their language. Law, in many cases, means not only a command, but a beneficent command. Liberty means not the bare absence of restraint, but the absence of injurious restraint. Justice means not mere impartiality in applying general rules to particular cases, but impartiality in applying beneficent general rules to particular cases. Some people half consciously use the word "true" as meaning useful as well as true. Of course language can never be made absolutely neutral and colourless; but unless its ambiguities are understood, accuracy of thought is impossible, and the injury done is proportionate to the logical force and general vigour of character of those who are misled.
