Language Quote by David G. McAfee

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation…

— Arne Tiselius

“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced,…

— Anonymous

“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title…

— Roger Bacon

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~”

— Anonymous

“From unintentional hallucinations of large language models to deliberate disinformation campaigns, the very foundation of truth is under attack, with facts as the first…

— Roger Spitz

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything except evil…

— Saul Bellow

“English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a…

— Paul Scott