“Writing obscures language; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.”
Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 31
“Language disguises thought.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
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1984
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Source: 1984
Context: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
Context: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
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“Loose language suggests loose thought.”
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“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
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Animal Dreams, page 118.
Animal Dreams (1990)