"Ideographical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is implied by those who observe that one can likewise think with geometrical figures, algebraical numbers, ideographic signs, without a single word, even pronounced silently and almost insensibly within one. They also affirm that there are languages in which the word, the phonetic sign, expresses nothing, unless the written sign also be looked at. But when we said "speech," we intended ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce |
