Best mankind & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book

“We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.”

Thinking Real Whole Dream Spiritual Culture Speak Language Mankind Development Civilization Roots Mirrors Spiritual Development Tracing

Author:Ernest Klein

“It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.”

Made Use Purpose Language Mankind Horror Truth Is Mere Ancestor Interfere Malice Incompetence

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.”

Courses Language Mankind Invention

Book:The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

Source: The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

“He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.”

Ifs Men Kind Hard Whole Pain Reading Left Language Nations My Own Mankind Particular Harder Doctrine Demonstration Orderly

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”

“Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind. Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe. Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds. Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.”

Source: Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting

“The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.”

Seems Language Mankind Expression Flower Taste Universal Mediums Symbols Serving Sentiments Delicate Finest Gross Fitting

Author:George Stillman Hillard

“It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.”

Moments Language Mankind Dignity Hatred India English Language Englishmen Single Mom Derogatory

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.”

Men Way Humans Language Mankind Human Language

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.”

Want Humans Kind Has Beens Art Use Artist Language Strong Differences Mankind Essentials Weapons Art Is Universal Painter Human Life Propaganda Very Strong Universal Language Propagandist

Author:Diego Rivera

“Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.”

Art Culture Language Nations Mankind Unique Art Is Universal Contribution Universal Language

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.”

Language Principles Mankind Tribes

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLIINE AND FALL OF THE EMPIRE

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLIINE AND FALL OF THE EMPIRE

“The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”

Heart Language Common Mankind Common Language

Author:Suzy Kassem

“If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.”

Ifs Humans Language Mankind

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.”

Language Silence Music Failing Mankind Communication Quiet Introvert Silence Is Inability Quietness Being Quiet Sounds Of Silence Inability To Communicate

Author:Walter Bagehot

“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”

Mean Language Common Mankind Behavior Philosophical

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Knows Men Book Dies Language Mankind Involved Rings Thee Islands One Man Bells Preacher Chapters Volume Torn Diminish Sermons Tolls Congregation Whom The Bell Tolls

Author:John Donne

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