What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
Edward SapirLanguage is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Edward SapirLanguage is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
Edward SapirThe 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.
Edward Sapir