Quotes About Language

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable.

Love is the essence of life, Love is the universal language of all creation, Love is the eternal desire, Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share, So feel the longing for love and being beloved.