L Quotes
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“Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“Language-First, Not Translation-Firs :-Bharat AI Education”
Source: मशीन के साथ बातचीत - Artificial Intelligence | AI Book in Hindi | Prompt Engineering ChatGPT | AI हिंदी में | जिज्ञासा से क्रिएशन और फिर कमाई तक: उपभोक्ता ... ↔ English ↔ Hinglish 1)
“Language-First, Not Translation-First :-Bharat AI Education”
Source: मशीन के साथ बातचीत - Artificial Intelligence | AI Book in Hindi | Prompt Engineering ChatGPT | AI हिंदी में | जिज्ञासा से क्रिएशन और फिर कमाई तक: उपभोक्ता ... ↔ English ↔ Hinglish 1)
“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”
“Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.”
Source: The Story of English
“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.”
“Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.”
“Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.”
Source: System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order
“Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.”
“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.”
Source: Course in General Linguistics
“Language gives birth to lame logic
Frivolous facts, relative reality
But misses out on the absolute truth
Spoken words can't summarize
Silence one day gets you #Mickeymized!”
“Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.”
Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more
“Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828”
“Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.”
“Language guardians have often blamed linguists as defenders of bad language: moral and cultural relativism is often tossed in at no extra charge. We as a profession are supposedly promoting the idea that anything goes in grammar... But no, we have never said anything goes in grammar. (...) When it comes to the proper use of language, universal grammar is the ultimate authority. It is not about what rules are deemed reasonable or popular; it is about what rules are true. And one sign for a true rule is that it appears in young children, long before they are polluted by dubious grammatical advice.”
Source: The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
“Language has a creative character: it is typically innovative without bounds, appropriate to circumstance but not caused by them – a crucial distinction – and can engender thoughts in others that they recognise they could have expressed themselves.”
Source: What Kind of Creatures Are We?
“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.”
Source: Jackboot Britain
“Language has been weaponized in modern societies not just to communicate but to control thought. Terms like “success,” “confidence,” “normal,” “mental health,” or “self-improvement” are presented as universally desirable, but these words are saturated with invisible assumptions. When people use these terms, they are not merely communicating ideas but also adhering to a predefined set of beliefs and norms. For example, to say one is “successful” is not simply to express achievement but to buy into the societal belief that success is tied to specific metrics like wealth or social status. To use such language is already to submit to the ideology behind it.”
“Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long as there’s love in the world, language will find a way to cast its spell.”
“Language has it’s uses but we have started using it as quick and cheap alternative for actions: It takes a lot of effort to make someone feel that you love them. “I love you” is cheap alternative. It takes effort to create study environment at home so that children feel like studying. “Do your homework” is cheap alternative.”
“Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.”
“Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.”
“Language has not the power to
speak what love indites:
The soul lies buried
in the ink that writes.”
Source: Poems of John Clare's madness
“Language has the power to weave inspiration into the fabric of our souls, painting vibrant pictures in our minds.”
“Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.”
Source: Either/ Or
“Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.”
“Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.”
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“Language helps form the limits of our reality.”
“Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.”
“Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.”
“Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.”
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and reading an interior adventure.”
Source: 22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters
“Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.”
“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.”
“Language is a form of organized stutter.”
“Language is a form of performance after all, because you adapt your mind to the other side when you speak or write. You must express yourself confined within certain words and rules that are beyond your rule, or else the other side won’t understand you. But to adapt means to die—not vice versa—because the moment you consider the other mind more, you detach from your own.”
“Language is a kind of miracle in itself. It is amazing that beings would have the appropriate ingredients, both mentally and physically, to construct elaborate sounds and signals that can express ideas about the natural word.”
“Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those using it. Just as in you are what you eat, it is even more precise to say you are what you say, what you read, and what you write…language can turn into a prison or a set of wings that can help us fly. It all depends on how we use it to challenge, expand, and question every single word we utter or write. Language is the beginning and the end of what makes us human. The language we do remains alive way after we depart this world. Language is in our mothers’ first lullaby, the first time we tell someone ‘I love you’, and we often talk about the significance of someone’s last words before they died. Therefore, we cannot decolonize anything, least of all knowledge production, if we do not examine why we say the things we say and how we get to internalize and express the things that shape our lives. In fact, language is truly the only home that remains even in exile when all else is lost.”
“Language is a living thing”
“Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.”
“Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.”
“Language is a machine for making falsehoods.”
Source: Under the Net
“Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.”
“Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.”
“Language is a nice way to remember things.”
“Language is a paradox, by ambition it is expansive, but by neurology it is restrictive, and language tied to ideology, is downright decrepit.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916