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Letter "L" » Language
«Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
adapted, algebra, analytical, constructed, in short, languages, reduced, simplest, simple language, The Art of Reasoning
«Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
fixed, infinitely, interpretation, involves, varied
«Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.»
Author: Benjamin Lee Whorf
(Linguist)
| About:
Language,
Thinking
| Keywords:
determines, language, shapes, think about
«Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.»
«Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.»
Author: Radclyffe Hall
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
awakened, body language, contain, response, somehow, vessel
«Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.»
«Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.»
«Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me and everybody»
Author: Thomas Ernest Hulme
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Language
| Keywords:
common language, communal, compromise, exact, expresses
«Language is a mixture of statement and evocation»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
evocation, mixture, mixtures, statement, The Statement
«Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
brought, building, city, stone, The Building
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