Alan Moore Quotes

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

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

You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.

A man without words is a man without thought.

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

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Words are not brains, you know.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

When I began to read, I began to exist

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

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

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.