Quotes on Language

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

A language is everything you do.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

The language that reveals also obscures.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.