Language Quote by José Ortega y Gasset Download Open image ““The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”” — José Ortega y Gasset ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Life
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think” — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity” — Brian Kiteley Copy Share Image
“A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught.” — Benny Lewis Copy Share Image
“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
