Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
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 is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Language is a virus from outer space.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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.
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