Existence Quote by James Joyce

“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes…

— Aldous Huxley

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

“The human mind creates a fundamental problem for human existence. The mind can always imagine a better state of the world than currently exists. …

— Thomas Dalton

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

— Sydney Brenner

“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think and perceive.”

— Anonymous

“an unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.”

— David Deutsch

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

— Samuel Johnson

In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site,…

— David Abram

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power…

— Stanley Fish

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason