Quotes by Speech Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle speechsilenceart Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. Thomas E. Mann speechsilencecivilization And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. Thomas Goodwin covenantspeechpromise Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Thomas Carlyle nuisancespeechearth Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Thomas Hobbes philosophicalspeechunderstanding Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. Thomas Carlyle shadowspeechmen Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. Thomas Huxley speechorderthinking True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Thomas Hobbes true-and-falsespeechtruth Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Thomas Carlyle stiflingspeechart He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. Thomas Carlyle unseenspeechreal The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight. Thomas Hobbes speechnamessight Speech is civilization itself. Thomas Mann speechcivilization Song is the heroics of speech. Thomas Carlyle speechsong The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that! Thomas Carlyle speechmusicsong Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread Thomas Seward townsspeechbread Speech is great, but silence is greater. Thomas Carlyle silence-isspeechsilence Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. Thomas Carlyle speechkindinspiration The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech. Thorstein Veblen speechexcellencebook Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. Thomas Jefferson hoursspeechdeath The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. Thomas Merton speechsolitudesilence«4243444546474849505152»
