Language Quote by Herodotus

“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language;…

— Herodotus

“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian,…

— Oscar Wilde

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“in language man has placed a world of his own beside the other, a position which he deemed so fixed that he might therefrom…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world,…

— Aldous Huxley

“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question…

— Rachel Cusk

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

— J. L. Austin

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith