“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
9 quotes“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
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.”
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”
Plato
1 quote“If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1 quote“There are worse prisons than words.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 quote“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
Cassandra Clare
1 quote“We live and breathe words.”
Gregory Maguire
1 quote“No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.”
Rebecca Solnit
1 quote“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”