Quotes About Language

Salv? ("Greetings!"), and WELCOME to the study of classical Latin, or what I affectionately call "The Mother Tongue"!

A different language is a different vision of life.

Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Guénon nous dit une fois que si nous pouvions rencontrer des hommes de l'âge d'or, nous serions frappés par le fait qu'ils parleraient toujours en images et non en langage abstrait. (De l'Esprit symboliste - Études Traditionnelles N°340, juin 1957)

While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.

We don't even use the word terror anymore. There's only 'man-made disasters' caused by disenfranchised groups who are really just 'misunderstood.

Reality exists as it is. The words we use to explain our understanding of it are always pale reflections of the truth we are attempting to convey and of our own understanding of that truth.

Sacrifice is not the price we pay to earn the celestial kingdom; it is the essence of the celestial kingdom. Testimony is not the word that gets us through the gates; it is the language spoken inside. Charity is not an audition piece for the heavenly choir; it is the celestial music. Service is not a vegetable we plug our noses and have to force down; it is the celestial diet.

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies--but I don't use that kind of language in public.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Words are where most change begins.

Philosophy? What good is that?" Isn't it the art of saying nothing with as many words as possible?

It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way.

Your grasp of the language is startling," Wax said, "considering how you so frequently brutalize it." "Ain't nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.

I can see why we need fellows who know how to light fires," Bluth said. "But I don't see why we need people to use fancy words." "Shhhh," Shallan said. "Don't say that so loudly. If the lighteyes hear, they might stop wasting their time making up new words, and instead start interfering with the business of honest men.

It made sense. But rich folk, they had a different word for the crapper. They'd call it a "commode" or a "washroom." That way, when someone asked for the crapper, they knew it was a person they needed to oppress.

Oh! You'll find this amusing. I just translated the name of their ship. In their language, it roughly means, 'Big Enough to Kill You.'

Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them—yet wholly unlike them at the same time?