Thursday, December 28, 2017

Different Language Expressions

The difference between the language of the highest philosophers and the utterances of babies is one of degree and not of kind. 
What you call the most correct, systematic, mathematical language of the present time, and the hazy, mystical, mythological languages of the ancients, differ only in degree. 

All of them have a grand idea behind, which is, as it were, struggling to express itself; and often behind these ancient mythologies are nuggets of truth; and often, I am sorry to say, behind the fine, polished phrases of the moderns is arrant trash. 

                    - Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, London


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