Common Quote by George Santayana

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can…

— Jonas Carpignano

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

— Garry Winogrand

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -…

— David Foster Wallace

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

“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.”

— Terry Fallis

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse…

— Eduardo Galeano

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

— Deborah Tannen

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

Being that can be understood is language.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier