Uit Language in Thought and Action,
door S.I. Hayakawa.
Chapter 1 Language and survival
Introduction
One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase "getting something for
nothing," as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of
society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed to us
gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter
himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered
his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of
the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources
of such pleasures as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short,
civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.
James Harvey Robinson
Whenever agreement or assent is arrived at in human affairs . . . this agreement
is reached by linguistic processes, or else it is not reached.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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