 Language is a social art. |
| Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. |
| Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. |
| 'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. |
| Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. |
| The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. |
| It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. |
| One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. |
| We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it. |
| Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. |
| To be is to be the value of a variable. |
| Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. |
