Language Quotes

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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well… — Alexander Crum Brown
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core. — Elliot W. Eisner
Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may… — Irving Copi
It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it.… — Louise Wilson
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or… — John Amos Comenius
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the… — Christopher Ricks
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are… — Sun Tzu
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect… — Queen Elizabeth II
It is the distance between us that creates language. — Robin Skelton
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first… — Thomas Nagel
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language… — Sathya Sai Baba

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