Ifs Quote by Martin Walser

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived

— Samuel Johnson

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

— Mason Cooley

“What sustains us, in belief as in action, is not reason or justification, but something more basic than these--for we go on in the…

— Thomas Nagel

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

— Ruth Benedict

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

— Helene Cixous

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“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

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of…

— Martin Heidegger

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

— Antonio Machado