In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!