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

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

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

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

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.

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.