Schopenhauer: "One thinks differently in every language, (...) our thinking is modified and newly tinged through the learning of each foreign language, and polyglotism is, apart from its immediate advantages, a direct means of educating the mind by correcting and perfecting our perceptions through the emerging diversity and refinements of concepts. At the same time, polyglotism increases the flexibility of thinking since, through the learning of many languages, the concept increasingly separates itself from the word."
Sent to me by Madame Pascal-Anne Brault, bien sur!
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