Being human Quote by Charlton Laird

For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience,…

— George Carlin

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

— ZZ Packer

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

— Jane Yolen

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

— Monique Wittig

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden