“There is no language without deceit.”
Source: Invisible Cities
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Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923–1985Related quotes

Session 57, Page 119
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”
Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 111-112
Source: Course in General Linguistics
Context: Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass. Philosophers and linguists have always agreed in recognizing that without the help of signs we would be unable to make a clear-cut, consistent distinction between two ideas. Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. here are no pre-existing ideas, and nothing is distinct before the appearance of language.

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”

Interview with Mark Jason Dominus, April 7, 2005, January 17, 2011, The Perl Review, http://www.webcitation.org/5vo5J8kzO, January 17, 2011 http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html,
“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”
Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery, any progress.”
pg. 27.
Against Method (1975)
Source: Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

“Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (November 1889)
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