If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Ludwig WittgensteinRead
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
A different language is a different vision of life.
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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