Language/origin

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or origin:

    “Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
    —Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

    “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed,—a, to me, equally mysterious origin for it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)