#language

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them. ↗

— Earnest Gellner

#ideas #knowledge #language #thought #change

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#dreams #language #mean #say

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#count #fundamental #fundamental purpose #fusion #julian

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conflict #evolution #inspirational-quotes #language #mankind

When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages. ↗

— Nizar Qabbani

#language #love #nizar-qabbani #inspirational

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #grammar #individuality #language #politics

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#teaching #freedom

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#humour #language #intelligence

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. ↗

— William Golding

#fits #language #like #over