Animal Quote by Joseph Conrad

“Now no one is going to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his…

— Maya Angelou

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

“parrot can say anything Albert Einstein could say, as well as mimicking the sounds of phones ringing, doors slamming and sirens wailing. Whatever advantage…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an…

— Joseph Conrad

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings…

— John Gray

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

— Lytton Strachey

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

— Ben Jonson

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

— Martin Buber

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

— Frantz Fanon

“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