Language Quote by Alfred Korzybski

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view…

— George Lakoff

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is…

— Terence McKenna

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world…

— Chris Abani

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the…

— Alfred Korzybski

“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction with others.…

— Larry Gottlieb

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Cesar Chavez