A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

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• Edward Sapir:

  As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses m

• Edward Sapir:

  Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical s

• Edward Sapir:

  Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as

• Edward Sapir:

  It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langu

• Edward Sapir:

  It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local

• Edward Sapir:

  National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

• Edward Sapir:

  No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social rea

• Edward Sapir:

  The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoptio

• Edward Sapir:

  We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our c

• Edward Sapir:

  A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely