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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Simone Weil
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Gaston Bachelard
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62 votes
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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Antonin Artaud
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60 votes
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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George F. Will
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Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
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Robert Benchley
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Clarence Darrow
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Samuel Johnson
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I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
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Sir Edward Appleton
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
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Charles V
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I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
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Sydney Pfizer
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
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George Bernard Shaw
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21 votes
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Heinrich Heine
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It was Greek to me.
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William Shakespeare
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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22 votes
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs books
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22 votes
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
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Sir Humphrey Davy
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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Samuel Johnson
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Language is the archives of history.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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25 votes
Language is the dress of thought.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson books
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14 votes
Language is the inventory of human experience.
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L. W. Lockhart
L. W. Lockhart books
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Karl Kraus
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Language is the pedigree of nations.
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Johnson
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Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
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Max Muller
Max Muller books
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21 votes
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson books
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20 votes
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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George Orwell
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35 votes
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf books
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23 votes
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
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Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin books
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Lily Tomlin
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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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George Eliot
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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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Aubrey Beardsley
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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17 votes
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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Nathanael West
Nathanael West books
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16 votes
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore books
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Poetry is the language of feeling.
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W. Winter
W. Winter books
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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
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Anthony Burgess
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31 votes
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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George Bernard Shaw
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21 votes
The eyes have one language everywhere.
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George Herbert
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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George Eliot
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49 votes
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
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Henri Delacroix
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The language of truth is simple.
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Euripides
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
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Marcellinus Ammianus
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80 votes
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
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John Ruskin
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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William Butler Yeats
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10 votes
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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29 votes
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne books
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44 votes