~ The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. ~
~ I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. ~
~ Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ~
~ Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~
~ Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ~
~ Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own. ~
~ To have another language is to possess a second soul. ~
~ The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ~
~ French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ~
~ Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ~
~ Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ~
~ Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms ~