Language Study Quotes by Edward Sapir

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Edward Sapir has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is…
• We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…
• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
• It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is…
• It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are…
• Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
• What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
• Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

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