Conditions Quote by Paul Ricoeur

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it…

— Edward Sapir

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.”

— John White

“the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

— Edward Sapir

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection…

— John Dewey

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a…

— Noam Chomsky

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

— Alfred Adler

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus:…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

— Elizabeth Bowen