The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth,… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
