#language

Language changes very fast. ↗

— John M. Smith

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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. ↗

— Nelly Sachs

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Image is an international language. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

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Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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