Color Quote by Gertrude Stein

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden

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

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in…

— Talal Asad

“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

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

— Adrienne Rich

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

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

— Russell Hoban

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

— Garry Winogrand

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky