Civilization Quote by Ernest Klein

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

— Russell Hoban

“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

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

— Cesar Chavez

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Cesar Chavez

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the…

— Julian Jaynes

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to…

— Frantz Fanon

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow,…

— Derrick Jensen