L Quotes
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“Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.”
“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
“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.”
Source: For Reasons Of State
“Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.”
“Language is a shared and sharing part of a culture that cares little about formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation, which is the deadly wages of perfection. Like bread and love, language is shared with others. And human beings share a tradition. There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.”
Source: Myself with Others: Selected Essays
“Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.”
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
“Language is a social art.”
Source: Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays
“Language is a social event.”
“Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.”
“Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being.”
“Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.”
“Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing”
“Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.”
“Language is a tool that allows us to express our thoughts. We use mechanisms of language including oral storytelling and indicative writing to depict a storehouse of evocative images. Language links our mind’s tawny memory and blooming imagination to the world. Storytelling connects each of us to the consciousness of other people who inhabit this planet.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.”
“Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.”
“Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.”
“Language is a virus from outer space.”
“Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.”
“Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.”
“Language is a weapon, keep it honed!”
“Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.”
“Language is a work of astonishing creativity. It is by far the most magnificent artefact humanity has ever come up with. It even surpasses the movies of Mel Gibson in this respect.”
“Language is also a place of struggle.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore linguistic potentials than to keep on using language that's past its expiration date.”
“Language is always evolving.
It's difficult to read Shakespeare now
because language has shifted. Similarly,
kids these days can get to the point
really quick in about 140 characters
or less because of these new tools.”
“Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.”
“Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.”
“Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.”
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“Language is an attempt to define life in linear words and symbols, but in reality, everything everywhere is happening all together at once, and to explain the totality of this with language is impossible. Thus, to awaken to the truth of reality, the truth of who we are, we must go beyond our language and intellectual way of understanding life.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“Language is an expression of the body-any sort of body-as much as it is a product of higher thought.”
Source: Peace, Pipe
“Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.”
Source: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
“Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.”
Source: The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world
“Language is art, language is imagery, music, rhythm, thought, responsibility and communication. With the extensive English vocabulary available to us, an abundance of words allow for precision of depiction - well almost”
Source: A Fantasist & A Scientist In Conversation: Creativity, Imagination, and Scientific Verification
“Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.”
“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”
Source: Karl Marx: A Reader
“Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.”
“Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.”
Source: The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom
“Language is butchered by the media”
“Language is by its very nature a communal thing.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.”
“Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.”
Source: The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”
Source: The roots of reference
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.”
Source: Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking