Alternatives Quote by Noam Chomsky

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent…

— Noam Chomsky

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

— Alan Moore

It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the…

— Noam Chomsky

It takes a long time for words to become thought.

— May Sarton

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words…

— David Lodge

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“In fact, however, the most useful analogy to keep in mind is that a language is like a lava lamp. The “lava” slowly swirls…

— John McWhorter

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

— Dean Falk

“This is another paradox, that many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person's life are ones that flash through your head…

— David Foster Wallace

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna