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Men learned to speak in order to understand one another. Cultural languages have lost the ability to help men to advance beyond the most rudimentary level and attain understanding. It seems that the time has come to learn to be silent once again.

— Fritz Mauthner Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (1923)

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