Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“We are here and it is now: further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)