Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“Though language forms the preacher,
‘Tis “good works” make the man.”
—Eliza Cook (1818–1889)