Famous quotes containing the words hebrew, vowel and/or points:
“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 9:3.
God speaking to Noah.
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Different points of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)