Language Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Roland Barthes

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of…

— Martin Heidegger

“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

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

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

— Frantz Fanon

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

— Martin Heidegger

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by…

— Jacques Ellul

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he…

— José Rizal

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow