Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Samuel Beckett
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
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George Steiner
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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.
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More Quotes By Mary Norris
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.
Nobody knows everything–one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn–and everybody makes mistakes.
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
