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"If one could find the characters or symbols to express all our thoughts as cleanly and exactly as arithmetics expresses numbers, or as analytic geometry expresses lines, one could do the same as one can do with arithmetics and geometry, as much as they are subject to reasoning. This is because all investigations that depend on reasoning would take place through the transposition of these characters, and by a kind of calculus."
- Leibniz
from: http://www.langmaker.com/db/mdl_leibnizscharacteristi.htm
"There is a kind of gossamer web, woven between the real things, and by this means the animals communicate. For purposes of communication they invent a symbolic language. Afterwards this language, used to excess, becomes a disease, and we get the curious phenomana of men explaining themselves by means of the gossamer web that connects them. Language becomes a disease in the hands of the counter-word mongers."
- T.E. Hulme, 1924
"In looking at objects of nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolic language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.Even when that latter is the case, yet still I have always an obscure feeling as if this new phenomena were the dim awaking of a forgotten or hidden truth of my inner nature. It is still interesting as a word - a symbol"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from 'Anima Poetae', 1804
"Blake�s language evolved from an original state of pre-intentionality in which he intuited some sort of relationship between language and thought, to a conscious awareness of the fact of intentionality, through a reflexive analysis of the concept underlying the material language system, and culminating, ultimately, in what amounts to an attempt to create a new language system, through which he might apprehend the �ultimate� referent."
http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Reviews/Spector.html
"Language is fossil poetry" -Emerson
"Speaking at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science earlier this year in Washington, Bassler explained that in addition to being able to communicate with members of their own species, many bacteria can also talk to members of other species using a universal chemical language."
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050310_talking_bacteria.html
