Quotes About Language

Thought is that invisible blade that determines the separation of bodies. The truth that sees itself as such becomes a lie and a deception, but language, which never lies, wins out over both.

Thought too must fragment and scatter. Thought is a spectrum, and truth, if it exists, can only show through anagrammatically in the spectrum of thought.

Technology evolves, language changes, the voice breaks, fate overtakes us. Naming things is never innocent. It is to precipitate them beyond their own existence into the ecstasy of language which is already the ecstasy of their end. We have no more reasons to exist than stones and if one part of our life is in the sun, then, necessarily, the other is in the cold of hell.

Never lose sight of the fact that writing is a strange, inhuman function, a reflection of the inhumanity of language itself. Through writing, language, which is a domestic species, becomes a wild one again.

Boredom is out of luck: it is itself being discussed in crashingly boring terms.

meaning is born out of the erosion of words, significations are born out of the erosion of signs

She sucks at her words as they come out. She seems to practise a constant fellatio on the words she pronounces.

The problem of reference was already an almost insoluble one: how is it with the real? How is it with representation? But when, with the Virtual, the referent disappears, when it disappears into the technical programming of the image, when there is no longer the situation of the real world set over against a light-sensitive film (it is the same with language, which is like the sensitive film of ideas), then there is, ultimately, no possible representation any more.

So should we save absence? Should we save the void and this nothingness at the heart of the image? At any rate, removing meaning brings out the essential point: namely, that the image is more important than what it speaks about-just as language is more important than what it signifies.

All terms with negative prefixes are already stereotyped language.

A woman is beautiful only if she is naked beneath her clothes. A thought is beautiful only if it is naked beneath language. In other words, violent. Each sentence is the spark of a will to power.

He does not define concepts, he does not analyse them, he does not criticize them: he murders them (but the crime is never perfect).

Her geçen gün daha çok haber ve bilgiye kar??n giderek daha az anlam?n üretildiÄŸi bir evrende ya??yoruz.

Concordance between a 'real' situation and a discourse ought to be an indication of 'truth', but it is, for that very reason, philosophically unbearable.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates our actions and compels us to speak this language.

What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

Dil öÄŸretimini eÄŸitimin yarars?z yanlar? aras?nda saymama ÅŸa??lacakt?r; ama burada yaln?zca ilk yaÅŸlardaki öÄŸretimden söz ettiÄŸim unutulmamal?; hem ne denirse densin, hiçbir çocuÄŸun, harika çocuklar d???nda, on iki ya da on beÅŸ ya??na kadar gerçekten iki dil öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olaca??n? kesinlikle sanm?yorum.

The desire to be better understood has been extinguished from my heart.

If only he had a way with words he

A frown creased Ayla's forehead. She remembered he had used that word to describe her when she used her sling, and she wasn't sure if she understood the word the way he used it. "Are you artist?" she asked. He made a wry grimace. Her question had touched at the heart of an issue about which he had strong feelings.

Hablan con sombras en la lengua.