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Top 10 Guy Deutscher Quotes (2024 Update)

Guy Deutscher Quote: “Noam Chomsky has famously argued that a Martian scientist would conclude that all earthlings speak dialects of the same language.”

1. “Noam Chomsky has famously argued that a Martian scientist would conclude that all earthlings speak dialects of the same language.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “Franz Delitzsch, who put it most memorably when he wrote in 1878 that “we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.”

2. “Franz Delitzsch, who put it most memorably when he wrote in 1878 that “we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.”

3. “Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “Much of a language’s complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.”

4. “Much of a language’s complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it’s only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.”

5. “Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it’s only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.”

6. “To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.”

7. “So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “Why should color, of all things, be at the center of so much crossfire? Perhaps because in meddling with such a deep and seemingly instinctive area of perception, culture camouflages itself as nature more successfully there than in any other area of language. There is nothing remotely abstract, theoretical, philosophical, hypothetical, or any other -cal, so it seems, about the difference between yellow and red or between green and blue.”

8. “Why should color, of all things, be at the center of so much crossfire? Perhaps because in meddling with such a deep and seemingly instinctive area of perception, culture camouflages itself as nature more successfully there than in any other area of language. There is nothing remotely abstract, theoretical, philosophical, hypothetical, or any other -cal, so it seems, about the difference between yellow and red or between green and blue.”

— Guy Deutscher

Guy Deutscher Quote: “Gender thus provides our second example of how the mother tongue influences thought.”

9. “Gender thus provides our second example of how the mother tongue influences thought.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “When one hears about acts of extraordinary bravery in combat, it is usually a sign that the battle has not been going terribly well. For when wars unfold according to plan and one’s own side is winning, acts of exceptional individual heroism are rarely called for. Bravery is required mostly by the desperate side.”

10. “When one hears about acts of extraordinary bravery in combat, it is usually a sign that the battle has not been going terribly well. For when wars unfold according to plan and one’s own side is winning, acts of exceptional individual heroism are rarely called for. Bravery is required mostly by the desperate side.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “There are four tongues worthy of the world’s use,” says the Talmud: “Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.”

11. “There are four tongues worthy of the world’s use,” says the Talmud: “Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, king of Spain, archduke of Austria, and master of several European tongues, professed to speaking “Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”

12. “The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, king of Spain, archduke of Austria, and master of several European tongues, professed to speaking “Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”

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Guy Deutscher Quote: “The mind cannot just manufacture words for abstract concepts out of thin air – all it can do is adapt what is already available.”

13. “The mind cannot just manufacture words for abstract concepts out of thin air – all it can do is adapt what is already available.”

— Guy Deutscher

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