Cutting Quote by Frank Herbert

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

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

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

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

— Desmond Tutu

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like…

— John Edgar Wideman

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate…

— Mikhail Tal

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich