God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
Language disguises thought.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
