Quotes About Linguistic conditioning

The evolution of Homo Sapiens into self-consciousness alienated the human species from the rest of the world, which became objectified for us as we became subjects looking out at it. This original sin is passed down to every generation as a linguistically conditioned and socially maintained illusion that each of us is a consciousness existing separately from the world.

language controls our thinking.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.