Language Quote by Noam Chomsky

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

— Stanley Fish

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Noam Chomsky

Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially…

— Harold Pinter

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

— Vera John-Steiner

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

— David LaChapelle

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

— Desmond Tutu

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience,…

— George Carlin

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers