Language - Quotes
Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.
i`d be lying if i said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in
Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa.
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.