Quotes About Language

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

One could continue quoting Irigaray, but the reader is probably lost (so are we).

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.

Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

Bem sei que os pobres só podem falar de dinheiro, mas falar de dinheiro nunca enriqueceu ninguém.

If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought