Behavior Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in…

— Talal Asad

“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

“In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in…

— Duranti a Alessandro

We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

— Michael Howard

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

— Monique Wittig

“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.”

— Ken Bugul

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very…

— Edward Sapir

“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

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery