Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

- Carol P. Christ

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

- Daniel Everett

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

- Jean Piaget

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

- John Wesley Powell

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Paul de Man

There is no linguistic war in Montreal.

- Pierre Moreau

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

- Roman Jakobson

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

- Roman Jakobson

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

- Roman Jakobson