Language speaks
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Language speaks is a famous saying by Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

. Heidegger first formulated it in his 1950 lecture Language (Die Sprache), and frequently repeated it in later works.

Adorno expressed a related idea when he said that language "acquires a voice" and "speaks itself."

The Language lecture

The saying was first formulated by Heidegger in the lecture Language (Die Sprache) in memory of Max Kommerell, first delivered on October 7, 1950 at the Bühlerhöhe building.
The lecture was translated in English by Albert Hofstadter
Albert Hofstadter
Albert Hofstadter was a twentieth century American philosopher.-Life and career:Hofstadter taught at Columbia University , the University of California at Santa Cruz and the New School for Social Research .-Thoughts on the Later Heidegger:As a Heidegger scholar, Hofstadter contends that Heidegger...

 in the 1971 Heidegger collection Poetry, Language, Thought.

Quoting a Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann was a noted German philosopher, a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment.-Biography:...

's 1784 letter to Hamann
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.-Biography:...

, Heidegger talks of language as an "abyss
Abyss (religion)
Abyss refers to a bottomless pit, to the underworld, to the deepest ocean floor, or to hell.The English word "abyss" derives from the late Latin abyssimus through French abisme , hence the poetic form "abysm", with examples dating to 1616 and earlier to rhyme with "time"...

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