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A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. — Lewis Thomas

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. — Karl Marx

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. — Noam Chomsky

The language of science - and especially of a science of man - is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity. — Thomas Szasz

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Any language is a supreme achievement of a uniquely human collective genius, as divine and endless a mystery as a living organism." A — Steven Pinker

Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. — Charlton Laird

Kindness transcends the boundaries of language, sickness, or disability. It is universal human gift we all have to give and receive so don't waste it. — Demi Lovato

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. — Gustave Flaubert

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings. — William C. Brown

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. — Eduardo Galeano

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. — Michael Eric Dyson

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. — Noam Chomsky

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature. — W. H. Auden

The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human. — Megan Shepherd

The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity. — Ken Bugul

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. — Lewis Thomas

It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way. — David Foster Wallace

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. — Steven Pinker

If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool. — Thomas Cahill

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James C. Maxwell

You couldn't have human society without language. — John Maynard Smith

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. — Marjane Satrapi

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Eric Garner

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories. — Aleksandar Hemon

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. — Malidoma Patrice Some

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. — John Berger

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human. — ZZ Packer

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free ... — Madeleine L'Engle

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words. — Stendhal

Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part. — Nikki Rowe

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language. — Diane Ackerman

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. — Robert A. Heinlein

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human. — Carmen Boullosa

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws. — Nataly Kelly

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul — George Crumb

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Language is infinite. It can be as creative, and as chillingly precise, as the human mind. — Alena Graedon

Paraphrasing..Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. — Naguib Mahfouz

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable. — Terence McKenna

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard

The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence. — Charles F. Glassman

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. — Carol Shields

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. — Paul Eluard

It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself. — James N. Powell

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. — Yasunari Kawabata

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue. — Nataly Kelly

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall

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

It doesn't matter where we are from, what language we speak or how we look like, it matters that we are all human beings. — Lee Soo-Jun

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein

He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought. — John Edward Williams

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry — Krista Tippett

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion. — Barack Obama

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. — Victor Hugo

The nation provided a human with the things that are most human - language and a past that stretched back before his birth. — George Friedman

We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada

Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being. — Euginia Herlihy

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen

That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak. — Lauren Oliver

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness. — Elizabeth A. Johnson

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. — Victor Hugo

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky

Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart. — Chuck Palahniuk

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human. — Weston La Barre

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life. — Ron Starbuck

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. — Carl Jung

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language," she said. "That's one of the reasons that we have poetry. — Ava Dellaira

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. — Kurt Vonnegut

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. — Henry David Thoreau

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. — Carl Sandburg

All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. — Eudora Welty

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being ... Language should be more than just getting by. — Chogyam Trungpa

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ... — Anton Webern

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain. — Lily Tomlin

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. — Spencer Wells

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being. — Celedonio Romero

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. — Pattiann Rogers

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. — Carl Jung

Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings — Danny Dover