L Quotes
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“Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.”
“Language learning is a journey of self-discovery, as you uncover hidden talents, develop cognitive skills, and boost your confidence.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“Language learning is an adventure that never ends, as each new language opens a gateway to further exploration, linguistic diversity, and personal enrichment.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.”
Source: Alternating Current
“Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.”
“Language makes infinite use of finite media.”
Source: Linguistic variability & intellectual development
“Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.”
“Language master that I was, my own word game never clicked well with guys. I'd never quite mastered the art of perfect response, either.”
Source: The Library of Lost Things
“Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.”
“Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets”
“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.”
Source: Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version
“Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.”
Source: Ben Jonson
“Language must be an expression of beauty and sophistication.”
“Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.”
“Language necessarily involves bringing any particular under more and more general and universal labels. That’s what conceptualization is all about: reducing particular things to fewer and fewer generalizations and universals, until, ultimately, reality is reduced to just one universal, the supreme concept that explains everything. This one concept is the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). The whole point of concepts is to reach more and more general and universal levels until we ultimately arrive at one concept – the ultimate universal which explains the whole of reality. That concept is the PSR.”
Source: The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes
“Language of God (The Sonnet)
A Jew may say, Hebrew is the language of god.
A Christian may say, Aramaic is the language of god.
A Muslim will say, Arabic is the language of god.
A Hindu will say, Sanskrit is the language of god.
A biologist may say, DNA is the language of god.
Mathematicians say, math is the language of god.
A psychiatrist may say, libido is the language of god.
Physicists say, Quantum Mechanics is language of god.
A politician may say, control is the language of god.
A capitalist may say, currency is the language of god.
A cop may say, law and order are the language of god.
A philosopher may say, wisdom is the language of god.
I don't know all that, I'm a being most ordinary 'n simple.
I only know that kindness is the language of a human.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“language of love
Please don’t bite your tongue”
“Language of Sound cannot always translate the language of Silence.”
“Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.”
“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,” [Deborah] Cameron says. “And that IMHO, s nothing to be proud of.”
Source: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.”
“Language preservation is like saving the birds. We don’t want birds to go extinct. Imagine Canada without the sound of a loon. It’s a classic Canadian sound. Canada would lose part of its soul if loons went extinct. It’s the same thing with languages. Native languages, in this country, or in any country, are part of its sonic environment. It’s part of our connection with the earth. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages.”
“Language raises the walls of identity, but only the vocabulary of compromise can keep civilization standing.”
“Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.”
“Language remembers where we come from, even when we try to forget.”
Source: Magyarul mint Oroszul: 1000 szó magyarázattal - ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в с пояснениями
“Language, scriptures, theories, belief? Nature and the infinite cosmos itself is the crowning expression of the Tao eternal.”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“Language seldom fails quietly, it fails noisily.”
Source: A Time In Rome
“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.”
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
“Language shifted, as it always does…they endured the harsh world. They softened their edges in an attempt to soften the edges of opposing forces. Sometimes this didn’t work. Sometimes it worked. They sought a cure no more. They realized the cure is the journey of the struggle. They realized that those times of sharp edges come from the top of the pyramid, from a few, and not some swarm of many infected, evil souls.”
“Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.”
“Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.”
“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”
Source: Deer Here He Stares: A Neo-Noir Descent Into Obsession, Psychological Delusion, Digital Predators, and the Quiet Girl Who Watches the Watchers
“Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them."”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“Language, Sweet," said Magnus's mother, arriving with a plate full of homemade biscuits. She didn't scold him too harshly about his talk these days. Magnus suspected this was because Mama shared Uncle Sweet's opinion about the Nazis. Yet despite the shortages and rationing, she had managed to turn out the most delicious biscuits Magnus had ever tasted. They were redolent of butter, which Mrs. Gundersen up the hill traded for apples from the family orchard.
Uncle Sweet made a great show of fanning himself and swooning as he ate a biscuit. "Language," he said, "is nothing but a bunch of words, and there are no words to express how wonderful this cookie is. I swear, if you were not already married, I would have you locked in a workroom like Rumpelstiltskin's daughter, forced to bake for me all day." He stole another biscuit from the platter and headed for the basement, lighting his way with an oil lamp. No one ever asked where his photographic chemicals came from- no one wanted to hold the answer like a piece of stolen fruit.”
Source: The Apple Orchard
“Language teleologically seeks to express its most general form, to attain the universal. The universal language is unique. It is mathematics.”
Source: The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes
“Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction,
something that can not be said.”
Source: Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.”
“Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They are sometimes spoken of by him as the ‘Other’ — as that which like language is always anterior to us and will always escape us, that which brought us into being as subjects in the first place but which always outruns our grasp. We have seen that for Lacan our unconscious desire is directed towards this Other, in the shape of some ultimately gratifying reality which we can never have; but it is also true for Lacan that our desire is in some way always received from the Other too. We desire what others — our parents, for instance — unconsciously desire for us; and desire can only happen because we are caught up in linguistic, sexual and social relations — the whole field of the ‘Other’ — which generate it.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.”
“Language transcends us and yet we speak.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception