Doe Quote by Thomas Bernhard

“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

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Roland Barthes

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are…

— John Fairclough

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

Speech happens to not be his language.

— Madame de Stael

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he…

— B. F. Skinner

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have…

— Thomas Reid

“As Umberto Eco might say: for communicating, language is perfect; there could be nothing better. And yet, language doesn’t say everything. The body speaks,…

— Laurent Binet

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

— Margaret Bourke-White

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Frantz Fanon