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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
- Lewis Thomas
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

2.
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

3.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

4.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

5.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.

6.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Walcott, Derek

7.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

8.
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Daumal, Rene

9.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Man, Paul De

10.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Mathews, Harry

11.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Steiner, George

12.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Orwell, George

13.
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Washington, Booker T.

14.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

15.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Charles V

16.
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

17.
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Whitman, Walt

18.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

19.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Tillich, Paul

20.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Mann, Thomas

21.
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
Hugo, Victor

22.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Canetti, Elias

23.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

24.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.

25.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

26.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Wilde, Oscar

27.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

28.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Calvino, Italo

29.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson

30.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn

31.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Shaw, George Bernard

32.
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
Appleton, Sir Edward

33.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis

34.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

35.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Bogan, Louise

36.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony

38.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

39.
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
Chandler, Raymond

40.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
Trench, Richard Chevenix

41.
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.
Hofstadter, Douglas

42.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Rushdie, Salman

43.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

44.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Baudrillard, Jean

45.
Language is the inventory of human experience.
Lockhart, L. W.

46.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder

47.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea

48.
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
Woolf, Virginia

49.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Vico, Giambattista

50.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Chomsky, Noam


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