Language Quote by Roland Barthes

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

— Frantz Fanon

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to…

— Thomas Bernhard

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

“Now no one is going to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his…

— Maya Angelou

“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived

— Samuel Johnson

“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.”

— Ken Bugul

“[...], the soul of man lives in his language.”

— Anouar Majid

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

— Louis Aragon

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

— Martin Heidegger

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it…

— Jacques Lacan