Rollo May Quotes

I Believe It Could Be Shown In Researches - Which Obviously Cannot Be Gone Into Here - That When A Culture Is In Its Historical Phase Of Growing Toward Unity, Its Language Reflects The Unity And Power; Whereas When A Culture Is In The Process Of Change, Dispersal And Disintegration, The Language Likewise Loses Its Power. "When I Was Eighteen, Germany Was Eighteen," Said Goethe, Referring Not Only To The Fact That The Ideals Of His Nation Were Then Moving Toward Unity And Power, But That The Language, Which Was His Vehicle Of Power As A Writer, Was Also In That Stage. In Our Day The Study Of Semantics Is Of Considerable Value, To Be Sure, And Is To Be Commended. But The Disturbing Question Is Why We Have To Talk So Much About What Words Mean That, Once We Have Learned Each Other's Language, We Have Little Time Or Energy Left For Communicating.

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