“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”
Letter on Humanism (1947)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Language is the house of the truth of Being." by Martin Heidegger?
Martin Heidegger 69
German philosopher 1889–1976Related quotes
“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
George Carlin
(1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Benjamin Fish Austin
(1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist
Sermon (1899)
“Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.”
Dan Brown
book
The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”
Confucius
(-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
名不正，则言不顺
Paraphrased as a chinese proverb stating "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."
Source: The Analects of Confucius
Source: The Analects, Chapter XIII
Stephen Spender
(1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
Pt. 2, Ch. 3
The Struggle of the Modern (1963)
Context: Both Hopkins and Lawrence were religious not just in the ritualistic sense but in the sense of being obsessed with the word — the word made life and truth — with the need to invent a language as direct as religious utterance. Both were poets, but outside the literary fashions of their time. Both felt that among the poets of their time was an absorption in literary manners, fashions and techniques which separated the line of the writing from that of religious truth. Both felt that the modern situation imposed on them the necessity to express truth by means of a different kind of poetic writing from that used in past or present. Both found themselves driven into writing in a way which their contemporaries did not understand or respond to yet was inevitable to each in his pursuit of truth. Here of course there is a difference between Hopkins and Lawrence, because Hopkins in his art was perhaps over-worried, over-conscientious, whereas Lawrence was an instinctive poet who, in his concern for truth, understood little of the problems of poetic form, although he held strong views about them.
“Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
L'accent est l'âme du discours.
English translation as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 2.
§ 118
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
[O] : Introduction, 0.8
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Context: A general semiotics studies the whole of the human signifying activity — languages — and languages are what constitutes human beings as such, that is, as semiotic animals. It studies and describes languages through languages. By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course. A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object.