ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΔ The Hawk and the Blindworm in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“Language was made for men to eat and drink, make love, do barter, die.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Explain thou snow to them of Andaman.”
  2. “The slaves of reason call this book Abuse-of-Language: they are right.”
  3. “The wealth of a language consists in its Abstracts; the poorest tongues have wealth of Concretes.”
  4. “This book would translate Beyond-Reason into the words of Reason.”
  5. “Therefore have Adepts praised silence; at least it does not mislead as speech does.”