Language Quotes
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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Music truly is the universal language.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.
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We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
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We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting.
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
