Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos. — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
