Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Important, Culture, Language

  "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.

• Language makes infinite use of finite media.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Media, Use, Language

  Wilhelm von Humboldt, Wilhelm Humboldt (Freiherr von) (1972). “Linguistic variability & intellectual development”, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

• One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Growing Up, Creative, Progress

• Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spiritual, Language, Nations

• Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Development, Zenith, Language

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