Quotes About Language

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.