Affair Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as…

— Noam Chomsky

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 grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us…

— Paul Bettany

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

— Jane Yolen

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

— Noam Chomsky

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

— Frances Mayes

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

— Arca