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

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

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 mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

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

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.

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.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.