It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental mean….

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations..

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes..

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxic….

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretat….

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in ….

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations..

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them..

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actu….

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the m….

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical cat….

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or ….

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative..

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomac….

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part….

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to ma….

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group..

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscoveri….

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb..

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry..

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all..