Quotes About Language

Words originated, as did the concept of God, with our species.

Within the human brain (and only the human brain), there exist specific structures responsible for the generation of our language capacities.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

But we can note that, however the debates turn out with regard to any given claim concerning animal behavior, it is clear that facile attempts to maintain that all human beings are exclusively in possession of some particular trait or set of traits that nonhuman animals lack (language, self- consciousness, tool use, awareness of death, or some other capacity) are becoming ever less tenable.

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words.

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center—their souls—to spiritually and physically respond.

exaggeration is the octopus of the English language

At some point within the first month I started talking to myself, which wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that I was also answering myself. I'd never imagined how crucial English was to my sense of a unified self—part

All jargon of the schools.

Poetry is an art of economy.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

Ati?a, following N?g?rjuna's commentator Candrak?rti, held that although our everyday language adequately describes apparent reality, philosophical discourse nevertheless has a necessary role: not system-building but the criticism of our presuppositions, dismantling them until we arrive at the profound realization of emptiness and the opening that this entails.

The characteristic symptoms of atrophy include a dry tongue. In

at the bottom of all meaning lies a residue of nonsense.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

that is the way with love affairs--they occupy your mind wholly for a time, and then they become distant countries where you no longer speak the language and have forgotten all the landmarks. [Édouard Manet]

It is so difficult to endow our words with meaning, to talk sense to each other.

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

To name the cat is, if you like, to make it into a non-cat, a cat that has ceased to exist, has ceased to be a living cat, but this does not mean one is making it into a dog, or even a non-dog.