Cómo nombrar las cosas Citas

• El principio de la sabiduría es llamar a las cosas por su nombre.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Names, Chinese Proverb

  "Las Analectas". Libro de Confucius,

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• Es una triste verdad, pero hemos perdido la facultad de poner nombres bonitos a las cosas.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nombres, Dar, Encantador

  Oscar Wilde General Press (2016). "Las obras completas de Oscar Wilde: Novela, Cuentos, Poesía, Ensayos y Obras de Teatro", p.812, GENERAL PRESS

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• Los nombres, una vez que son de uso común, se convierten rápidamente en meros sonidos, quedando su etimología enterrada, como tantas maravillas de la tierra, bajo el polvo de la costumbre.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dust, Names, Sound

  Salman Rushdie (1989). "Los versos satánicos", New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Careers, Political

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• By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Names, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• Es una triste verdad, pero hemos perdido la facultad de poner nombres bonitos a las cosas. Los nombres lo son todo. Nunca discuto con las acciones. Mi única disputa es con las palabras. El hombre que puede llamar a las cosas por su nombre debería estar obligado a usarlas. Es lo único para lo que sirve.

  Oscar Wilde

  Amor, Divertido, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2015). "El retrato de Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)", p.212, Diversion Books.

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• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Stars, Moving, Ideas

  Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.

  LeCrae

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  "A conversation with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Me siento feliz de volver a escribir un diario. Lo he echado de menos, he echado de menos nombrar las cosas tal y como aparecen, he echado de menos la media hora en la que dejo a un lado todas las obligaciones y saboreo la experiencia de estar viva en este hermoso lugar.

  May Sarton

  Beautiful, Diaries, Half

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• Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.

  Sarah Wylie

  Cancer, People, Might

  Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.67, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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