Language
is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition
into which he has been born...
~ Aldous
Huxley Every
individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition
into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives
access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in
so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness
and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his
concepts for data, his words for actual things.
~ Aldous
Huxley |
Thanks
to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we
have often sunk to the level of the demons.
~ Aldous
Huxley
Language
is the dress of thought.
~Samuel Johnson
Our
native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea
that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
-- Casey Miller
The
great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
--George Orwell
Language
is the source of misunderstandings.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Language is the soul of intellect,
and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond
the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
-- Charles Scribner, Jr.
Language
helps form the limits of our reality.
-- Dale Spender
The
quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
-- J. Michael Straczynski
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
--
Mark Twain |
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A warm smile is
the universal language of kindness.
-- William A. Ward
“Language
is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is
something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long
generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground”
-- Noah Webster
“The
limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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