21 quotes
“The past is always tense the future perfect”
— Zadie Smith
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and solitude to express the glory”
— Paul Tillich
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”
— Mark Twain
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language”
— Gaston Bachelard
“The conversational nature of reality asks for kindness as its primary language”
— Krista Tippett
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
“Man exists through words.”
— Sartre
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see extending compassion to all”
“Language is the house of being.”
— Martin Heidegger
“Emotions are the languages of the soul.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”
— Rumi
“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda
“In the beginning was the Word”
— John 1:1
“We become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.”
— Charles Taylor
“The most elementary questions about language raise deep mysteries that fill linguists with wonder”
— Noam Chomsky
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