To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhum...”
“Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are consider...”
“Language disguises thought.”
“Often its not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”
“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”
“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”
“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”
“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”