Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. (Desmond Tutu)

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Desmond Tutu

Related topics

language reality

Related quotes

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. View quote
Maurice Sendak
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. View quote
Donald Knuth
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. View quote
Hannah Arendt