Analysis Quote by Edward Sapir

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

Language is a systematic verbal symbolism.

— RMKATTA

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed…

— Paul Ricoeur

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places,…

— Steven Pinker

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it…

— Franz Kafka

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

— Elizabeth Bowen

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all…

— Joseph Fourier

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

— Wendell Berry