Our Language Quotes

100 quotes by 88 authors

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and… — Thomas Berry
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is… — Louis Pasteur
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will… — Unknown Author
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby… — Jan Tschichold
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. — Willard Van Orman Quine
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our… — Jacque Fresco
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long… — Jacque Fresco
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our… — Elliot W. Eisner
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. — Elliot W. Eisner
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd… — Brett Somers
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned… — Carl Jung
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make… — Godfrey Reggio
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause… — Dwan J. Young
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. — Edmund Waller
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest… — Ambrose Bierce
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. — Bernard Pivot
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space… — Unknown Author
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the… — Terence McKenna

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