Human language Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human language Humans Language Metaphorical Nature Nature of man
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 Copy Share Image
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings… — John Gray Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest.… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself,… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
