Language Quotes

“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”
― Edward Sapir, Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech

“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”
― Edward Sapir, Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech

“Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.”
― Edward Sapir, Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech

“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.”
― Sapir, Edward, Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech