"#Animals respond to natural & accidental #signs (smoke is an accidental #sign of fire, clouds portend rain). #Humans also have instituted signs. The difference lies in the fact that by means of the latter [#language] humans can control the flow of their own #imagination … ."

- Charles #Taylor - “The Importance of Herder” from Philosophical Arguments (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jgr6/NMT/332taylor.htm) (1995), p. 88