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“I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.”
“Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical ...”
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.”
“Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the...”
“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”
“It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral ...”
“When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.”
“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.”
“Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.”
“Music is a language, you see, a universal language.”
“Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.”
“I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.”
“The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.”
“The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality everyone is united by this common language of mus...”
“Instrumental music can spread the international language.”
“The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.”
“Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.”
“I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework an...”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
