Quotes by Edward Sapir

"Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations."
— Edward Sapir
"What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes."
— Edward Sapir
"The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."
— Edward Sapir
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Edward Sapir (/səˈpɪər/; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discip...