Language resists self-knowledge exactly as the body does

Evidence

These actions are almost impossible to describe or understand fully — yet most of us perform them with the greatest of ease, day after day. This is the real mystery of existence. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 727 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Everyday bodily actions resist full description yet come to us effortlessly — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 727; Language can never directly express our immediate sensory experience because words are inherently universal; German lacks a natural verbal link between habit and contraction (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Everyday bodily actions resist full description yet come to us effortlessly #corroborates (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 727
• Language can never directly express our immediate sensory experience because words are inherently universal #corroborates (0.75)