Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“We are as great as our belief in human libertyno greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraintsthe rules that run us. Language is using us to talkwe think were using the language, but language is doing the thinking, were its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)