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“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

Thinking Needs Humans Soul Language Church Records Aspect Communicate Appropriate Neglected Human Soul Respectful

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.”

Humans Language Natural Human Beings Conversation Marketing Commerce

Author:William C. Brown

“You couldn't have human society without language.”

Humans Language Human Society

Author:John Maynard Smith

“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”

Humans Use Hands Language Ability Hot Instinct Surface

Author:Steven Pinker

“If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.”

Ifs Humans Language Study Human Nature Degrees Related Remarkable Being Human

Author:Charlton Laird

“Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.”

Humans Language Goodness

Author:Yasunari Kawabata

“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

“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.”

Humans Faces Language Poor Class Expression Skills International Ancient Human Experience Bourgeoisie Timely Upper Class Swedish Coquetry Extraction Intonation Language Skills

Author:Erland Josephson

“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

“The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.”

Years Humans Use Language Bills Democrat Abortion Fund Human Trafficking Trafficking

Author:Barack Obama

“Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.”

Humans Different Together Suffering Language Sun Style Ego Dresses Being Human Different Styles Different Languages Different Faiths

Author:Dalai Lama

“O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.”

Mind Humans Action Turns Language Powerful Divine Contemplation Discourse Penetrate Admirable

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.”

Way Humans School Order Language Movement Return Foundation Innocence Liberation Revolutionary Poetry Is Renewal Surrealism Pact

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

People Knows Humans Mean Use Feelings Science Speak Language Grows Wonder Knowledge Wonderful Building Clothes Mathematics Pool Human Experience Ecstatic

Author:Steve Jobs

“The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.”

Mind Humans Eye Language Stars Difficult Written Air Wind Ears Clouds Substance Human Mind Human Eyes Written Language Spoken Language

Book:The Wilderness Journeys

Source: The Wilderness Journeys

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.”

Needs Humans Language Consciousness Intercourse Basic Needs

Author:Karl Marx

“We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.”

Humans Language Assuming Property Possession Exclusive Mute

Author:David Abram

“'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'”

Men Humans Important Ideas Character Names Language Given Originals Obscure

Author:Laura Riding

“One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude.”

Humans Language Grows Walks Creative Growing Up Progress Products Manifestation Human Thought Idiom Stationary

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“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