The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Charles Stanley

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
Dee Hock

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori