Speech is the best show a man puts on.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork…

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of…

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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…

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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…

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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…

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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…

- Benjamin Lee Whorf