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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the dress of thought. (Alesi Jean)
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. (Alesi Jean)
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the inventory of human experience. (Alesi Jean)
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. (Alesi Jean)
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. (Alesi Jean)
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. (Alesi Jean)
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. (Alesi Jean)
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! (Alesi Jean)
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. (Alesi Jean)
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated. (Alesi Jean)
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world. (Alesi Jean)
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. (Alesi Jean)
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. (Alesi Jean)
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language. (Alesi Jean)
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past. (Alesi Jean)
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs? (Alesi Jean)
We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as 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. (Alesi Jean)
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