Built Quote by Edward Sapir

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

— Andrei Codrescu

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

— Desmond Tutu

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of…

— Niels Bohr

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

“Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.”

— Michael Hyatt

“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear…

— Edward Sapir

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

— Terence McKenna

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer