'We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.'
Alan Watts
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Society may have defined language, although ever evolving, but that doesn't determine the thoughts I have in my mind. Nor does the way a previous generation's perception of an image. They may be the way I explain my thoughts, but my thoughts are most definitely my own. They can be no one else's.
