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

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

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

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.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.