“Language transcends us and yet, we speak.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, book Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception (1945), p. 349

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty24

French phenomenological philosopher 1908–1961

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Crash (1973)

“The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.”

Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist

“Metaphor is the language of immanence; metonymy of transcendence.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

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“Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

During his 2015 Mexico Cruade - "TB Joshua Gathers 200,000 In Mexico" http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/05/tb-joshua-gathers-200000-in-mexico.html Nigerian Eye (May 14 2015)

“Oh, tell me not that they are dead — that generous host, that airy army of invisible heroes. They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this nation. Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language?”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

"The Honored Dead" (1863) memorialized the Union dead; a popular piece for declamation among schoolchildren, also published as "Our Heroes Shall Live"
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Context: Oh, tell me not that they are dead — that generous host, that airy army of invisible heroes. They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this nation. Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society, and inspire the people with nobler motives, and more heroic patriotism?
Ye that mourn, let gladness mingle with your tears. It was your son, but now he is the nation's. He made your household bright: now his example inspires a thousand households. Dear to his brothers and sisters, he is now brother to every generous youth in the land. Before, he was narrowed, appropriated, shut up to you. Now he is augmented, set free, and given to all. Before, he was yours: he is ours. He has died from the family, that he might live to the nation. Not one name shall be forgotten or neglected: and it shall by and by be confessed of our modern heroes, as it is of an ancient hero, that he did more for his country by his death than by his whole life.

“The language others speak to us, from childhood, shapes the attitudes and beliefs that ground how we use all our powers of action.”

Jay Lemke (1946) American academic

Source: Textual politics: Discourse and social dynamics, 1995, p. 1