Bakhtin Quote by Mikhail Bakhtin

“It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.”

— James N. Powell

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it…

— Ray Bradbury

“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,”

— Paul Kalanithi

“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the…

— Joan Didion

“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

“We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own…

— Alan Rabinowitz

“You believe in things you cannot see and speak a language that only hearts know.”

— Charles Martin

“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find…

— G.K. Chesterton