Language Quotes - Page 27

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

There is no language without deceit.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

Speak the language of the person you want to become.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.