Birth: April 24, 1897 Death: July 26, 1941
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of….
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork….
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft..
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language..
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a….
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a fact….
Speech is the best show a man puts on..
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic s….
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in thi….
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages..
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos..
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it..
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about..