“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”
Others on Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein
9 quotes“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
Lewis Carroll
2 quotes“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more...”
Alfred Tennyson
2 quotes“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Language is a virus from outer space”
Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
David Mitchell
2 quotes“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
Leo Buscaglia
1 quote“Man created words to free himself”
Alan Watts
1 quote“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
Simone Weil
1 quote“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
Frank Herbert
1 quote“I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.”
Socrates
1 quote“The misuse of language induces evil in the soul”