Best human-beings & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.”

Humans Children Two Together Speak Language Human Beings Heard Speech Capable Infant Scratches

Book:WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

“Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”

Humans Soul Remember Language Human Beings Divine Speech Bible Native Pigeons Milton Native Language Pygmalion My Fair Lady

Book:Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.”

Should Humans Individual Language Human Beings Existence

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.”

Want Humans Ideas Language Human Beings Music Is Concepts

Book:The path to the new music

Source: The path to the new music

“[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.”

People Knows World Want Needs Humans I Can Self Language Understanding Human Beings Information Emotional Mines Majors Messages Intellectual Communicate Being Human Evident Emotional Things

Author:Jeff Buckley

“The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind”

Humans Kind Ideas Culture Individual Language Understanding Imagination Human Beings Planets Communication Messages Intuition Boundaries Psychedelic Synergy

Author:Terence McKenna

“Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.”

“The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.”

Humans Language Social Human Beings Agreement

Book:The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

“To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.”

Should Humans Reality Language Force Human Beings Pay Benefits Screens Categories Shortcomings

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.”

“Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”

People World Humans Together Names Language Human Beings Race Please Seven Variety Fifty Units English Language Complexion

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.”

Writing Firsts Humans Language Human Beings Talking Drawing

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.”

Humans Children Two Three Language Human Beings Movement Unique Impression Rhythm Correlation Chimpanzees Analog

Author:Oliver Sacks

“As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.”

Humans Long Stories Language Human Beings Being There

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.”

People Way Humans Different Stories Use Turns Language Grows Human Beings Ability Growing Up Listening Creatures Complexes Being Different Eloquent

Author:Flemming Rose

“In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.”

“Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.”

“There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel—it’s that postmodern thing—it’s more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being’s experience.”

Feels Humans Book Beautiful Fall Language Human Beings Cold Compassionate Leaving Me Experimentation Postmodern Beautiful Books

Author:Andre Dubus

“Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”

Humans States Language Parent Born Natural Human Beings United United States Citizens Constitution Sovereignty Allegiance Owing

Author:John Bingham

“I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.”

Thinking Humans Important Language Human Beings Trouble Important Things Accomplished

Author:Paul Bettany

“Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.”

Writing Firsts Humans Reality Language Human Beings Drawing Transcription

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.”

Humans Spiritual Language Human Beings Music Is

Author:Celedonio Romero

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