Language Quote by Bertrand Russell

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There are enough unresolved metaphysical problems in the Categories and the Isagoge (a brilliantly unsuccessful attempt to defuse these problems) to make a logic…

— John Marenbon

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

— Anonymous

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from…

— Noam Chomsky

“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa