Language Quotes - Page 23

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

To change your language you must change your life.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

Language is fossil Poetry.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.