A Barrier to Progress

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

A Sheet of Paper

"Language can also be compared with a sheet of paper: thought is the front and the sound the back; one cannot cut the front without cutting the back at the same time; likewise in language, one can neither divide sound from thought nor thought from sound."

(Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, 1916)

The Shaper of Thought

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

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