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

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

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

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

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.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

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.