Quote of Martin Luther King Jr. - Occasionally in life there are those...
Biography - Martin Luther King Jr.:
American Baptist minister.
Born: 1929 - Died: 1968
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1929 - Died: 1968
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United States
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
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