Fragments Quote by Vera John-Steiner

Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially…

— Harold Pinter

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

— Mark Forsyth

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

— Desmond Tutu

We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of…

— Niels Bohr

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two…

— John Seymour

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

— John Cowper Powys