Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“A human being is only breath and shadow.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.”
—Richard Rorty (b. 1931)