“A different language is a different vision of life.”
Federico Fellini

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

“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”
Geoffrey Willans

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”
Nelson Mandela

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
Flora Lewis

I came across these quotations on a blog called lastflyingcow.com. There didn’t seem to be a reblog button, so I cut and pasted most of the quotations here. Here is the link to the original post: https://lastflyingcow.com/2023/07/25/to-have-another-language-is-to-possess-a-second-soul/