“For 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.”
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.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1 quote“Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future...”
Federico Fellini
1 quote“A different language is a different vision of life.”
Leo Buscaglia
1 quote“Man created words to free himself”
Alan Moore
1 quote“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be consc...”