“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.”
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.”
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...”
C.S. Lewis
1 quote“'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”
George Carlin
1 quote“I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?”
Margaret Atwood
1 quote“Where do the words gowhen we have said them?”
Carl Sandburg
1 quote“Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.”
George Orwell
1 quote“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Nicola Yoon
1 quote“Names are powerful things.”