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