“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”
“Hidden Words,” p. 58
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Source: 1984
Context: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
Context: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 62
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 14 “The Escape” (p. 197)
“Language is the dress of thought.”
The Life of Cowley
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.”
Address, Dedication of Williston Seminary, Dec. 1, 1841.
“Loose language suggests loose thought.”
Victim impact statements represent the sentimentalisation - the Diana-ification - of the criminal justice system, argues Theodore Dalrymple http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001298.php (December 11, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)