Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

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

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

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.