A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

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

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.

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.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.