linguistic sovereignty

“This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.”

– Alan Watts

“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think."

- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet (The Crosswicks Journals Book 1) (p. 149). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

Theory of linguistics determinism (theory of Sapir Whorf) : mostly abandoned by scientists (thinking precedes languages). But linguistic relativity has been proven. Therefore it is true in the sense : language is a tool you can use to sharpen how you think.

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889–April 29, 1951) an Austrian-born philosopher who spent most of his life in England, including teaching at Cambridge.