“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
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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.”
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...”
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.”
Frank Herbert
1 quote“I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.”
Alan Watts
1 quote“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
Socrates
1 quote“The misuse of language induces evil in the soul”
Nietzsche
1 quote“Every word is a prejudice.”
Anne Rice
1 quote“Who could trust language?”
W.H. Auden
1 quote“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”