“We are not the ones in charge of language; language is in charge of us.”
“When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.”
“We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.”
“We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.”
“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”