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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

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.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.