Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
The language of truth is simple.
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that the two have always been together in my life, one resonating in the other, sometimes ironically, sometimes nostalgically, most often each correcting, and commenting on, the other. Each can seem like my absolutely first language, but neither is.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.
Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.
Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.
It is said that life and death are under the power of language.
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