Accepting Quote by Edward Sapir

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

— Salman Rushdie

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power…

— Stanley Fish

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used…

— Noam Chomsky

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

— William James

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

— Edward Sapir

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows…

— Raymond Cattell

There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

— Edward Sapir

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of…

— Abraham Maslow

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich