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 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.

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

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

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

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

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.