“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.” YearsTodayEarthNamesSpeakLanguageNationsWrittenLandBearsWorshipYears AgoScriptsIsraelCornersStoresBarsIceSoilCreamCoinsCandyIce CreamContinuityEmbodimentPotteryCandy Stores Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.” KnowsYearsSpeakLanguagePerfectViewsExpressionYears AgoPoint Of View Author:Jose Maria Aznar
“The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.” YearsFirstsFactsLanguageMy OwnPowerfulAtheismDevelopmentEvidenceYears AgoPositive AtheismVersionsAcquireAncestorCousinVocalEmergingApesChimpanzeesGorillasOrangutansHominids Author:Roger Fouts
“In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.” YearsBookLiteratureLanguageModernSixHundredYears AgoProfoundLibraryLatinScholarVolumeModern Languages Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.” WorldYearsBelieveTwoLanguageStrongI BelieveChurchPrayerCommonModernPureDegreesHighestHundredYears AgoEnglandAncientBreatheRationalElegantPietyLiturgyChurch Of EnglandModern Languages Book:John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer Source: John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer
“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.” IfsYearsMeanPersonsEyePastSpeakLanguagePrayerHeardPossibilityWallHolyMetsPaperYears AgoStonesWarmReachingTouchedReach OutTouristsBeing MeJerusalemScrapBeing LovedWailingCrevice Author:Zoketsu Norman Fischer
“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsHumansKindMayChildrenHas BeensReasonPhilosophyTodayLastsLanguageParentAnimalExistenceSituationPracticeMagicInfluenceLandBalanceMen And WomenYears AgoInstitutionsBoundariesParadiseNo ReasonPrimitiveAltruismChildren And ParentsClimaxDissolvingPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna
“Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.” PeopleKnowsYearsLooksLittlesSpeakLanguageBitsMiddleLittle BitYears AgoOriginalsIsraelEastStreamsSwimSwimmingMiddle EastExileDiaspora Author:Shimon Peres