Vladimiro Sousa

“To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“He there experienced that the most absolute power is a weak defence against the effects of despair.”
― Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

“Complex organs evolve by small steps for the same reason that a watchmaker does not use a sledgehammer and a surgeon does not use a meat cleaver.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects. Indeed, if babies did not have a mentalese to translate to and from English, it is not clear how learning English could take place, or even what learning English would mean.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language