L Quotes
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“Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.”
Source: The Enchantress of Florence
“Language usage always has a political context.”
“Language uses us as much as we use language.”
“Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.”
“Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.”
“Language was invented to ask questions.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.”
“Language was not given to man: he seized it.”
“Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.”
“Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary process. I can't review here the strong and growing evidence to support this conclusion, but I have elsewhere. There are ample reasons why having a LOT would confer selectional advantage: the person so endowed could plan, interpret, reflect, etc., in ways denied to others.”
“Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.”
“Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.”
Source: The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered
“Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.”
“Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.”
Source: A Dictionary of the English Language: Containing the Whole Vocabulary of the First Edition in Two Volumes Quarto, the Entire Corrections and Improvements of the Second Edition in Two Volumes Royal Octavo, to which is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History, and Connexion, of the Languages of Western Asia and Europe, with an Explanation of the Principles on which Languages are Formed
“Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?”
Source: Daughter buffalo
“Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.”
“Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.”
Source: Symbols of transformation
“Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.”
“LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”
“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”
Source: The Mind's Eye
“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.”
“Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.”
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues
“Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.”
“Language... 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.”
“Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.”
“Languages are bridges that unite people from different backgrounds, fostering tolerance, empathy, and global harmony.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“Languages are but echoes of each other, Based on the environment each feels unique. No language is superior, no language is inferior, All are born of human mind to meet at heart's peak.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.”
“Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!”
“Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.”
“Languages are like beings:
they thrive, take a dive,
and need care to survive.”
“Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.”
“Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'”
“Languages are the keys of science.”
“Languages are the pedigree of nations.”
“Languages are true analytical methods.”
“Languages build up to reflect specializations in a way of life. Each specialization may be recognized by its words, by its assumptions and sentence structures. Look for stoppages. Specializations represent places where life is being stopped, where the movement is dammed up and frozen.”
Source: Children of Dune
“Languages come easy to me,
Cultures come easy to me,
Scriptures come easy to me,
Science comes easy to me.
You know why? Because there is no me,
only the mission of undivided humanity.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Languages connect us and break down barriers when we unite to nurture the best in us and help each other succeed. Happy International Mother Language Day!”
“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.”
Source: Language in Literature
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
“Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.”
“Languages, in many ways, are living cells in cultures. They are like DNA storing traces of what happened, what is happening, and what could have or should have happened.”
Source: Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
“Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.”
Source: The Role of Women
“Languages shape the way we think, or don't.”
“Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.”