Quote by Meister Eckhart

Words derive their power from the original word.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Summary

This quote suggests that the power of words comes from their origin or root. It implies that the essence and significance of a word are derived from the original meaning or context it emerged from. The quote highlights the idea that words carry a certain potency and influence because of their foundation, suggesting that understanding their origin is crucial in comprehending their true power and impact on communication.

Topics

Power

By Meister Eckhart

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country de

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Fear

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Honor

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Charles de Montesquieu

War

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Con

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

Style

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Work

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

Dad

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

William Shakespeare

Drama Theatre

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Ta

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Melanie Laurent

Amazing

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Men Beauty Respect

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

John Dos Passos

Strength

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking a

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

Sadness