Language Quotes

"Language is the house of Being." "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "Language is the dress of thought" "We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them." "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "Nothing has really happened until it has been described" "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark" "The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life" "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think" "Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words." "Words are loaded pistols." "What we speak becomes the house we live in" "Music connects souls, regardless of borders or languages." "A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use." "All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic." "All language is but a poor translation" "What's another word for Thesaurus?" "Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together"