Language Quote by Lee Braver

“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within”

— George Eliot

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“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

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

— Nicole Brossard

“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think and perceive.”

— Anonymous

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.”

— Susan Sontag

“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

“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in…

— Robert Smithson

“That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an…

— Emil Cioran