#2,898

Words are born among the people, flourish among writers, and die in the mouth of the middle class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,889

The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,881

What is difficult about a difficult philosopher is more often his language than his philosophy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,822

The onslaught of words unleashed by an unlimited freedom of expression ends up reducing errors and truths to an equal insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,791

Formulating the problems of today in a traditional vocabulary strips away their false pretenses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,705

Words are the true adventures of the authentic writer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,580

The distinction between the scientific use and the emotional use of language is not scientific but emotional.
It is used to discredit theses that make modern man uncomfortable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,438

Words do not decipher the mystery, but they do shed light on it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 393

#2,392

Whoever stuffs his text full of idiomatic expressions creates linguistic folklore for literary tourists.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 386

#2,139

Three factors have corrupted, in America, the noble vigor of the Spanish language: the mental solecism of the non-Hispanic immigrant, the child-like eloquence of the black, and the shy, submissive melancholy of the Indian.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 349

#2,082

Even in opposition to the intellectual language of a time one cannot help but write in it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 337

#2,061

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts the languages that are in use.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#1,959

Literature is not a psychological drug, but a complex means of communication for saying complex things.
A melodramatic or cacophonous text, besides being ugly, is false.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,875

When we say that words transfigure, the fool mistakenly thinks that they adulterate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,871

Only in what he manages to express nobly does man grasp profound truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,867

The word was not granted to us to express our misery, but to transfigure it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,825

A language's attrition is faster, and the civilization that rests on it more fragile, when grammatical pedantry is forgotten.
Civilizations are periods of standard grammar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,800

Words are not enough for a civilization to be transmitted.
When its architectural landscape crumbles, a civilization’s soul deserts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 296

#1,737

If words do not replace anything, only they complete everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,723

The spirit is not transmitted from one mortal to another by way of formulas.
More easily than through a concept, the spirit passes from one soul to another soul through a quivering of the voice.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286