Quotes by Language Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities. Gunnar Myrdal languageknows What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! Gustave Flaubert povertylanguagestars Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. Gustave Courbet visiblelanguageart Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. Guy Deutscher inventionmankindlanguage Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes. Guy Davenport cyberneticsmachineslanguage He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. Guy Debord familiarlanguage The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. Guy Vanderhaeghe languagewarbook If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases Guy Steele computerlanguagegiving Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in. Gwenno languageexpressionmatter Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have moved me beyond anything that I've experienced in any other language. Gwenno languageliteraturefirsts Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it. Gwenno differentlanguagegiving I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes. Gwendolyn Brooks claycrushlanguage We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words. Friedrich Nietzsche thoughtfullanguagethinking English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural. Ha Jin plasticlanguagenatural No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. George Bernard Shaw languagemastersmen Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. Gwendolyn Brooks achievelanguagewonder The philosopher caught in the nets of language. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopherphilosophicallanguage The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language. Friedrich Nietzsche activitylanguagespiritual I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that languages have different characteristics and that influences in some ways how different groups behave, and I suppose it might in whales. Hal Whitehead drivingdifferentlanguage Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt propagandamomentumlanguage«3738394041424344454647»
