Abstraction Quote by Herbert Marcuse

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an…

— Herbert Marcuse

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that…

— Aldous Huxley

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places,…

— Steven Pinker

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things…

— Paul Auster

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if…

— Mark Twain

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

— Nicole Brossard

They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them…

— Monique Wittig

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

— Monique Wittig

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