One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. — John Erskine Copy Share Image
Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
“Small-minded speakers and writers hide behind humongous words.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“a word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hand. — Sharon M Draper Copy Share Image
Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
“of Swords to bed, I couldn’t shake the sense of unfinished business. I’d go to sleep and have vivid dreams, and they… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, sometimes the second the first… Each… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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