There is an incline from silence to language

Max Picard

There is an incline from silence to language, to the truth of the word; and the gravitational force of this incline pushes truth on still further from language down into the active life of the world.

~ from THE WORLD OF SILENCE by Max Picard

The World Of Silence

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