#lang

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#common #interpret #language #mankind #means

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#language #learned #pain #you

I must stick with Chinese language films. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#films #i #language #must #stick

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #back #deal #great #great deal

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#corporate #corporate interests #fighting #framework #i

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#choice #command #exercise #fruit #his

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#decent #english #language #learned #left

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#important #language #listen #more #nature

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#as far as #cannot #communicate #discuss #embracing