Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)