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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Language disguises thought.

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore linguistic potentials than to keep on using language that's past its expiration date.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.

Language is a social event.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Language is butchered by the media

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language is the archives of history.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.