Human Language Quotes

46 quotes by 36 authors

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by… — Martin Chemnitz
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind — Noam Chomsky
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. — Linda Hogan
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my… — Mikhail Tal
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends… — David Abram
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James Clerk Maxwell
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. — Malidoma Patrice Some
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay… — Paulo Freire
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities… — Julian Burnside
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God… — Jacques Ellul
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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