There’s no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
Language buries, but does not resurrect.
You’re apt to be done down, you know, if you don’t speak anything but good American.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.[translation by Richard Howard]Words are the source of misunderstandings.[translation by Katherine Woods][Le langage est source de malentendus.]
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
In which language does rain fall over tormented cities?
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.[Den Begriff ‘Schmerz’ hast du mit der Sprache gelernt.]
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
