If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he hears. Similarly I often cannot recognize the human being in someone etc.