Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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.