Felicite de La Mennais Quotes

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

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

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Words are not brains, you know.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

A man without words is a man without thought.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Words are the small change of thought.

By words the mind is winged.

The human word is neither immortal nor invulnerable; but it is the power that orders our chaos, and the light by which we live.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

Being that can be understood is language.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Language is the light of the mind

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

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