Quotes About Philosophy Of Language

#1. Because it exists as a living sonority, music is animated by voices, and these voices do not evaporate when music confronts the insights of contemporary literary criticism, or philosophy of language.

Carolyn Abbate

#2. As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Umberto Eco

#3. Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

Giuseppe Peano

#4. The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Debasish Mridha

#6. True love has her own language.

Debasish Mridha

#7. All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Love is the essence of life,
Love is the universal language of all creation,
Love is the eternal desire,
Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,
So feel the longing for love and being beloved.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#11. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.

Milan Kundera

#12. For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules
it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#16. Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things

Ilyas Kassam

#18. Love is the language of the heart,
which everyone understands.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Natasha Trethewey

#20. Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Oliver Sacks

#21. When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.

David Hume

#23. Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Rene Daumal

#24. I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Music is the language of the soul, the voice of the heart, and a message from the eternity.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

#27. Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for 'pleasure derived from the misfortune of others'? Schadenfreude.

John Dolan

#28. To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence.

Debasish Mridha

#29. The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.

Forrest Curran

#30. The existence of both (electron and pebble) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction (experimentation) with our external world.

Felix Alba-Juez

#31. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

George Steiner

#32. In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.

Michael Dummett

#33. Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success.

Kshitij Shringi

#34. Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

Ravi Zacharias

#35. The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Music is the language of love, nature, and eternity.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Kindness is the language of eternal consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#38. The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Michel Serres

#39. Consciousness is nothing but a neuro-chemical and a mechanical action of the body. Consciousness is important, but the expression of thoughts with language makes us human. Everything is conscious, but levels of consciousness are different.

Debasish Mridha

#40. So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.

Ben Aaronovitch

#41. The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program.

Ashish Dalela

#42. Kindness is the language of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#43. It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Nick Harkaway

#44. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Michel Foucault

#45. The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Auguste Comte

#46. Kindness is the language of love.

Debasish Mridha

#47. Kindness is the language of heart, which the universe can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.

Debasish Mridha

#49. The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#50. The language of love is not words but feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Love is the secret language of the heart which everyone can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#52. A tree is more conscious than we are; she expresses her awareness slowly and silently with beauty. Our consciousness is very limited, but we are blessed with a language to express or superficial consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Whether between man and women, man and man, or woman and woman; look not towards any system that binds society created by man for guidance, but be guided by the principles of love. Love is the only law that commands this universe, and is the only language that is understood universally.

Forrest Curran

#54. Love and kindness are the universal language of all creation.

Debasish Mridha

#55. Music is the language of the heart; it makes our soul dance with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#56. I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict
the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.

Patricia Geary

#57. Like flowers to a bee, feelings are the silent language of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#58. The "self-actualization" philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will.

David Graeber

#59. He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Guy Debord

#60. Love is the language of the heart. It can feel the movements of every atom and understand every language spoken or unspoken.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#62. The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of the top men. But the secrets are shrouded in ritual and religion, and may use them.

Isaac Asimov

#63. A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Love and attraction is the magmatic language of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#65. Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

George Sand

#66. Kindness is the language of love, which everyone can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#67. Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#68. The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#69. Music is the eternal language of love for every living species.

Debasish Mridha

#70. The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#71. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Stefan Molyneux

#72. Every rose is longing for joy and love; every rose know the language of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#73. Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone - even a tree can understand music.

Debasish Mridha

#74. There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

Richard Bentall

#75. Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#76. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.

Stan D. Jensen

#77. Love is the universal language of heart.
Feeling are the universal language of love.
Smile is the universal language of charm.
Attraction is the universal language of life.

Debasish Mridha

#78. We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon

#80. In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

#81. The menu is not the meal.

Alan W. Watts

#82. Without language to give them shape, memories are just like houses with no walls. They're merely events seeking to chain themselves together into causes and effects; survival unhindered by narrative.

Sorin Suciu

#83. Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language, interpret its words and enter into the mystery of life.

Amit Ray

#84. Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise.

Debasish Mridha

#85. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#86. Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Rene Magritte

#87. The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#88. In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Jacques Derrida

#89. Music is the language of the soul. It touches our deepest perceptions of being. Everyone understands music in his or her own way. Even animals understand music and respond to it with deep appreciation and love.

Debasish Mridha

#90. Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#91. The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

James Jordan

#92. When you learn the language of divine love, everything become divine, miraculous and lovely.

Debasish Mridha

#93. The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Felix Alba-Juez

#94. Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

Jules Michelet

#95. Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don't realize we are swimming in love.

Debasish Mridha

#96. Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#97. Never look for a reason to be kind, just be kind to everyone. Kindness is the language of heart that everyone can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#98. Music is the language of soul; it can express the deepest feelings of life which language cannot touch.

Debasish Mridha

#99. Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

#100. Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.

Debasish Mridha