Quotes About Language

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.