“Reason” in language – oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of ‘singing’ the world. The initial form of language, therefore, would have been a kind of song.
Language is everything, since it is the voice of no one, since it is the very voice of things, the waves and the forests.
Now if we rid our minds of the idea that our language is the translation or cipher of an original text, we shall see that the idea of a complete expression is nonsensical, and that all language is indirect or allusive – that is, if you wish, silence.
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The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one’s own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
All language is but a poor translation.
Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Language is the house of Being.