When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.