"What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit……" — Edward Sapir
"What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes."
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Edward Sapir
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37 Quotes by Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir has 37 quotes on this site.
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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…
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose…
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily…
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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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A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one…
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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age…
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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far…
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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its…
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of…
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so,…
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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
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More Absolutes Quotes
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one of 71 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
— Kathy Whitworth
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double…
— Ravi Zacharias
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work…
— Raymond Chandler
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Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
— Dave Filoni
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded…
— Charles Dickens
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There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion.…
— John Dewey
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Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There…
— Serge King
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments…
— L. Tom Perry
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