Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk read more

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

It was greek to me.

It was greek to me.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy read more

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of read more

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.