Language And Philosophy Quotes

“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful and great is meaningless. Language is one of the best tools of expression, but also one of the best tools to deceive, manipulate, and lead others astray. It is sometimes hard to differentiate between the two and recognize the game of deceit and manipulation. It usually happens when we need to figure out our real prowess and use the language not for real communication or expression but for personal gain, academically, or in any other way that may benefit us.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Humans free themselves from conceptual traps by freeing themselves from paradigms that close horizons instead of opening them. Language is the supreme instrument of thought, but a number is a word, too; without a word, there would be no number. Every number corresponds not only to the graphic symbol but also to the linguistic one. Conceptually, numbers and words are different because words represent or name things and phenomena, while numbers represent the quantitative or numeric value of things and phenomena. We understand the function and the role of numbers and words. Through words, others know what we think or want to say. However, even a bird knows what the nest is by feeling it intuitively. A dog, thrown away ten miles from the house where it lived, will find it. Animals often communicate among themselves.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We may also think that, regardless of how insufficient our language or knowledge is, we can still arrive at conclusions stemming from something more profound than the knowledge or language but only expressed by language. If language (as we understand it) were an absolute instrument of thought, there would be no different languages but only one universal language of thought. Since this is not the case, we can express the same thought in different languages with different signs and sounds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Let's agree that spoken language is not an absolute instrument of thought. Still, we must agree that language, as such, serves the profound purpose of communication primarily (on a fundamental level) and some other, more sublime purposes (great works of literature and philosophy, for instance). The primary purpose of language, as one of the phenomena of existence, must be analyzed as a phenomenon with its existence and essence. Only when defined with the highest degree of accuracy, can its essence be applied to existence as the totality and the world.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is possible to imagine nonverbal communication of thought on a much higher level than the one we possess. First, we must determine the shortcomings and advantages of verbal communication [and communication in general].”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is a different and huge subject if language or communication must be in the way we, as human beings, think language is, how it functions and expresses thoughts. Different beings with intelligence, somewhere in the Universe, use different types of communication than our own, not only in their languages but also in how they communicate. Depending on their stage in development, their communication abilities would be more advanced. We can only imagine the behavior or communication among the beings belonging to a civilization a million years or more ahead of our own. We can imagine that if we, as human beings, were able to survive that long, in the distant future, we would be so advanced compared to us now that it would be like comparing different species.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Can thought exist without words? Are visions, for example, visual thoughts? What would, potentially, be the most sublime form of language and communication? Is thought possible without language in our sense of the word? What would be a pure thought?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE