Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

Language is a social art.

Speech is civilization itself.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Speech is what makes man a political being.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.