Language Quote by Heidegger, Martin

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

“Man is the master of his choices,”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.”

— Ben Johnson

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.”

— Charles Olson

“as language had proven time and time again that it was man’s single greatest strength.”

— Matt K. Turner

“A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.”

— Samantha Hunt

“[...], the soul of man lives in his language.”

— Anouar Majid

“The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man.”

— James Thurber

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”

— Confucius

“humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.”

— Muriel Barbery