Language Quote by Joseph Devlin

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

— Cato the Elder

“Explore many facets of the written word.”

— Anonymous

“it seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the…

— Elena Ferrante

“I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of…

— Mircea Eliade

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A chapter written is a word learned.”

— Chloé Claes

“De Man's challenge to modernity was to put forward a new mode of subject constitution, not one that relied upon the foundational operation of…

— Wlad Godzich

“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.”

— Tom Kane

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy