The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.