Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Words are the small change of thought.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

The thought is not the thing.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

A man without words is a man without thought.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.