Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
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.
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 froth on the surface of thought.
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.
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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.