Aspect Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

— Toni Morrison

Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts…

— Mary Oliver

You couldn't have human society without language.

— John Maynard Smith

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

— Melina Marchetta

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or…

— Nelson Mandela

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Garry Winogrand

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

— Rebecca Solnit