“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between modern humans and other social animals. It seems that, for good or for ill, language is what sets us fully apart. The evolutionary effect of words has been both amazing and ominous, including our ability to survive in nearly every habitat on Earth, and to destroy its magnificence in a flash. As the saying goes, there’s no rose without a thorn.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.