Accounts Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

— Anonymous

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and…

— Vanna Bonta

“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is…

— Rob Riemen

“[...], the soul of man lives in his language.”

— Anouar Majid

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

— Paulo Coelho

When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the…

— Khalil Gibran

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

— Noah Webster

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

— Gene Wolfe

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a…

— Edward R. Murrow

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden