Showing posts with label immeasurable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immeasurable. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Words become extraordinarily important

We use words to measure the immeasurable. So one must be aware also of the network of words, how words cheat us, how words mean so much: communism, to a capitalist, means something terrible. Words become extraordinarily important.
J. Krishnamurti in "On Nature and the Environment" page 92