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Language Quotes by Hermann Weyl
- Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the…
- Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
- The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its…
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- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
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- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman