I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.