All Talking Languages Are Ugly

Although I speak about the ugly English language often, I speak about the ugly English language because I live in the USA and want to improve the language I use. The truth is that the talking language in every nation is ugly. All talking languages are ugly because man develops them.

I learned about this ugliness when I was studying the 15th century work of Nicholas of Cusa. His work warns us about the uncertainties of the symbols that fills our talking languages with junk. To overcome these uncertainties, he shifted to the certainty of mathematics when he wanted to express a certainty.

However, it took more than 500 years for the Western world to learn about the true nature of our talking languages. Not until 1941 will we learn that a major discovery was made independently by a number of linguists. Susanne Langer tells us about this discovery in "Philosophy in a New Key." On p. 21, she tells us that ‘our sense data are primarily symbolic.’ But, in his book on the "Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Friedrich Hegel discovered that sense certainty cannot be reached by languages.

With these two discoveries, how can one accept the "Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path" proposed by Rudolf Steiner? How can one accept the free flow of logic into our talk language? How can one expect to build true sciences based on sensual data alone and without metaphysics? How can one progress in science without Popper’s falsifiability criterion that pushes man into the future and its unknowns? And how can one age and only hope to die so they can go to a heaven that does not exist?

Hopefully, others wake up as I did.