Quote#Speech
It is one thing to find the Permanent; it is another thing to find a…
Quote byL. P. Jacks · 1860–1955
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Usurpation Of Language (1910).
English (original)
It is one thing to find the Permanent; it is another thing to find a form of words in which the Permanent shall stand permanently expressed. It is one thing to experience something fixed and changeless; it is another thing to fix this something by a changeless definition. The first may be possible, while the second remains impossible for ever.
— L. P. Jacks
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