Defined Quote by Charlton Laird Download Open image “Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.” — Charlton Laird ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Ifs Inspirational Mammals Men Wish
Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind… — John Rawls Copy Share
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to… — Charlton Laird Copy Share
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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