Language/origin

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or origin:

    “... language is meaningful because it is the expression of thoughts—of thoughts which are about something.”
    —Roderick M. Chisholm (b. 1916)

    “High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and is first committed by, the power that makes and forever re-creates man.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)