Consciousness Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

— Katherine Mansfield

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense;…

— Anne Carson

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person…

— Carol Windley

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

— George Carlin

“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of…

— Jean Aitchison

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

— Anonymous