Anton Chekhov Quote

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.


Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 12, 1892)


The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas;...

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas;...

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas;...

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas;...