Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“Thou majestic in thy sadness
at the doubtful doom of human kind;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we do not know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)