Mode/language

Famous quotes containing the words mode and/or language:

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)