Human Language

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:

“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)