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Massimo Baldini
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“Silence also enhances testimony. Silence does not prove, argue, or demonstrate; it only testifies. Yet, despite this, or perhaps because of it, it possesses an unusual power. “Why are you crying out so loudly?” God said to Moses. Yet Moses was silent. “So much,” commented Kierkegaard, “can silence cry out to heaven.” (p. 93)”
Massimo Baldini (1947–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The theme of silence can be topical or outdated. It is never out of fashion. And today, despite what many may think at first glance, it is undoubtedly topical. Perhaps more so than ever before. “As the power of language diminishes,” noted Susan Sontag, “the power of silence increases.” And ours are times in which language is seen as something corrupt. “In no century,” wrote Ignazio Silone in ‘'Pane e vino’' [the title is ‘'Vino e pane’'], "has the word been so perverted, as it is now, from its natural purpose, which is to enable people to communicate. Speaking and deceiving (often deceiving oneself) are now almost synonymous." The widespread disaffection with words stems from the realization that our speech and that of others has become mostly mere palatal facts, impersonal and banal chatter. (pp. 83-84)”
Massimo Baldini (1947–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The oxymoron is preferred by the mystic because it allows him to express something ineffable, because it is the best tool for speaking of the unspeakable, because in the world of duality it creates the ‘'coincidentia oppositorum’', which Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), in the context of his theology of the Incarnate Word, considered almost the least imperfect definition of God. The mystic, in his talk of God, punctuated by ‘'improprietas’', ‘'voces obscurae, horridae, inauditae’', seeks through a paroxysmal accumulation of oxymorons to linguistically touch the divine. (from ‘'La mistica e i mistici’', p. 187)”
Massimo Baldini (1947–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source