These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

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

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

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.

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

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.