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

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

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

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.

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

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.