Illumination Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

— Peter Brook

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now…

— Camille Paglia

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)

— Anonymous

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

— Michael O'Leary

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that…

— Sigmund Freud

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero