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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
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

2.
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

3.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

4.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Barthes, Roland

5.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

6.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

7.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

8.
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay
White, Elwyn Brooks

9.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

10.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey

11.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

12.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Charles V

13.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin

14.
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

15.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Ricks, Christopher

16.
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

17.
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

18.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert

19.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

20.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

21.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

22.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

23.
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

24.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Orwell, George

25.
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

26.
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

27.
How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.

28.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

29.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
Joyce, James

30.
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.
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

32.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

34.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

35.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.

36.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

37.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Kraus, Karl

38.
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

39.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea

40.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone

41.
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

42.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

43.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Orwell, George

44.
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.
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

46.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

47.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

48.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

49.
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
Daniel, Samuel

50.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare


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