“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
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.”
David Mitchell
2 quotes“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
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.”
Rebecca Solnit
1 quote“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”
John Adams
1 quote“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
Salman Rushdie
1 quote“...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantm...”
E.M. Forster
1 quote“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”
John Stuart Mill
1 quote“Language is the light of the mind.”