Book Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

“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

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely…

— Virginia Woolf

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to…

— Stephen Batchelor

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

— Julien Torma