*Ludwig Wittgenstein/

-"Die Bedeutung eines Wortes ist sein Gebrauch in der Sprache."(<Philosophische Untersuchungen>)

-"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen." (<Tractatus>)

-"Lügen ist ein Sprachspiel, man muss es lernen wie jedes andere."(<Philosophische Untersuchungen>)

-"Alle Philosophie ist Sprachkritik."(<Philosophische Untersuchungen>)

*Noam Chomsky/

-"It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar."

-"By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate."

-"The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar."(<Language and Responsibility>)

-"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

-"The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself."

*Heidegger/

-"Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins. In ihrer Behausung wohnt der Mensch. Die Denkenden und Dichtenden sind die Wächter dieser Behausung.“ (<Über den Humanismus>)

-„Sprache ist lichtend-verbergende Ankunft des Seins selbst.“ (<Wegmarken>)

-“Sagen Sie mir, wie Sie lesen, und ich sage Ihnen, wer Sie sind.”

-"Die Wissenschaft denkt nicht."

-"실은 언어가 인간의 주인이다. 필시 이 도착(倒錯) 탓에 인간의 본질에 소외에 빠질 것이다. 인간으로 내세울 것 중에 언어만한 게 없다."

*Steven Pinker

“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”

(<The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language>)

“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects. Indeed, if babies did not have a mentalese to translate to and from English, it is not clear how learning English could take place, or even what learning English would mean.”

(<The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language>)

*Lacan/