Philosophy of Mind Quote by Sharon Olds

“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had…

— Anonymous

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.”

— Erin Moure

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Kiran Nagarkar

“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we…

— Robert Coles

“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it.…

— Michel Foucault

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,”

— Paul Kalanithi

“In the simplest language, spoken without a single word between out two bodies.”

— Cara McKenna

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley