Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.