language Quotes

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:politics language

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:world language

“Beyond the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum: truculent language masked an inner hollowness”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“language . . . is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:thought language

“English is the largest human tongue; its variety, subtlety, and irrational idiomatic complexity make it possible to say things in English which cannot be said in any other language.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Definitions are rules for the translation of one language into another.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:truth language

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:truth words success language

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