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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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.

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