Language is the dress of thought.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Language is what stops the heart exploding.
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
