Accuracy Quote by Anne Carson

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I…

— Anne Carson

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have…

— A.A. Milne

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery

— Mark Amidon

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

— Niels Bohr

“George Orwell, on how to avoid thinking when you speak: You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made…

— George Orwell

“Our unconscious thinking is, in one critical respect, no different from our conscious thinking: in both, we are able to develop our rapid decision…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

— Maryanne Wolf