Lev Vygotsky Quotes

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

To live is to think.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

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

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

Thought is the measure of life.

Words are not brains, you know.

Being that can be understood is language.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

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

A man without words is a man without thought.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

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

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

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

Language is memory and metaphor.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.