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.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

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.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

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