Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

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.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

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.

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

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.