"We think in language. We think in..." - Quote by George Carlin
We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.
More by George Carlin
“The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.”
“I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.”
“Life is a zero sum game.”
More on Language
“If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.”
“Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself”
“No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.”
More on Thought
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.”
“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”