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Quotes about language
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When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. (Visnjic Goran)
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. (Visnjic Goran)
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. (Visnjic Goran)
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. (Visnjic Goran)
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The word of man is the most durable of all material. (Visnjic Goran)
It was Greek to me. (Visnjic Goran)
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. (Visnjic Goran)
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases. (Visnjic Goran)
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. (Visnjic Goran)
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. (Visnjic Goran)
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. (Visnjic Goran)
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. (Visnjic Goran)
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. (Visnjic Goran)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. (Visnjic Goran)
How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote. (Visnjic Goran)
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests (Visnjic Goran)
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. (Visnjic Goran)
Numbers constitute the only universal language. (Visnjic Goran)
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay (Visnjic Goran)
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. (Visnjic Goran)
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. (Visnjic Goran)
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. (Visnjic Goran)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. (Visnjic Goran)
Poetry is the language of feeling. (Visnjic Goran)
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