Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes
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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it…
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A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
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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,…
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Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes…
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My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and…
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