Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.

Edward Sapir's Popular Quotes

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

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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

- Edward Sapir

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

- Edward Sapir

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…

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

- Edward Sapir

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

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

- Edward Sapir

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.

- Edward Sapir

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

- Edward Sapir