Peter Høeg Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

  Peter Høeg

  Distance, Moving, Understanding

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

• I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

  Peter Høeg

  Mother, Two, People

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.316, Macmillan

• There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

  Peter Høeg

  Travel, Moving, Way

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

• When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

  Peter Høeg

  Believe, Moving, Mean

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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