Beliefs Quote by Larry Gottlieb

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had…

— Anonymous

“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we…

— Robert Coles

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear…

— Edward Sapir

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Jean Berko Gleason

“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

“For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.”

— Erin Kissane

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger