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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 merely an incidental…

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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…
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…
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…
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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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is… — Edward Sapir
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