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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.