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

“The wealth of a language consists in its Abstracts; the poorest tongues have wealth of Concretes.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The slaves of reason call this book Abuse-of-Language: they are right.”
  2. “Explain thou snow to them of Andaman.”
  3. “Language was made for men to eat and drink, make love, do barter, die.”
  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.”