Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

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

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

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

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Remarks are not literature.

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 memory and metaphor.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

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

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

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

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.