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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is…
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It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are…
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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is…
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
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What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
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Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages;…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war…
— Simone Weil
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has…
— Ramana Maharshi
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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