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... everyone developing
A language of his own to write his book in,
And one to cap the... More
... often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and colour. I have the... More
... those who use the word “lifestyle” are rarely in possession of either. More
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken... More
... word-sniffing ... is an addiction, like glue—or snow—sniffing in a somewhat less... More
...I ... believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of... More
...Often the accurate answer to a usage question begins, “It depends.” And what it depends on... More
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer,... More
A language is therefore a horizon, and style a vertical dimension, which together map out for the... More
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of... More
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite... More
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. More
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no... More
A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about.” More
A picture is a fact. More
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. More
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a... More
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or... More
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. More
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. More
A word—you know:
a corpse. More
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more... More
According to the dictionary: “In modern apprehension man as thus used” [in the sense of... More
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they... More
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language. More
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising,... More
All philosophy is a ‘critique of language’ (though not in Mauthner’s sense). It was Russell... More
All propositions are of equal value. More
All the distinguished writers of that period [the Renaissance] possess a greater vigor and... More
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language.... More
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to... More
All true language
is incomprehensible,
Like the chatter
of a beggar’s teeth. More
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and... More
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask. More
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for... More
And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have... More
And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man’s tongue, to twist the shapes of... More
and the deaf soul
struggles, strains forward, to lip-read what it needs:
and something is... More
And who in time knowes whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange... More
And who, in time, knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange... More
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an... More
As a tiger may lose its footing on soft ground, so people may be tripped up by sweet words. More
As against Russell, I shall say this. Meaning (in at least one important sense) is a function of... More
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to... More
As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and... More
Ask yourself whether our language is complete—whether it was so before the symbolism of... More
Aunt,
there’s a difference
in what he says,
though his words are the... More
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a... More
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little... More
But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past... More
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that... More
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of... More
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It... More
Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
principle it can everywhere be... More
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply... More
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from... More
Christy Brown: Fock ahv.
Dr. Eileen Colt: With speech therapy, I can teach you to say “fuck... More
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what... More
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate... More
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring. More
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained... More
Do we mean love, when we say love? More
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we... More
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No... More
each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight More
Elementary propositions consist of names. More
English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological... More
English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere. More
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were... More
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it... More
Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and... More
Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always... More
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?—In use it is alive. Is life breathed into... More
Every word is a prejudice. More
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn’t take any... More
Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word. More
Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If... More
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found... More
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive... More
Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema. More
First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal... More
First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing... More
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries... More
For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even... More
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as... More
For thousands of years human beings have communicated with one another first in the language of... More
For words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools,... More
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of... More
Forasmuch as whosoever speaketh to another, intendeth thereby to make him understand what he... More
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite... More
Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
Entuned in hir nose ful semely,
And Frenssh she... More
Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and... More
Grammar is a tricky, inconsistent thing. Being the backbone of speech and writing, it should, we... More
Grammar, which rules even kings ... More
He does not go to the dictionary, the word-book, but to the word-manufactory itself, and has made... More
He had not failed to observe how harmoniously gigantic language and a microscopic topic go together. More
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language,... More
He never doubts his genius; it is only he and his God in all the world. He uses language... More
He plays o’the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book,... More
He speaks truly who speaks the shade. More

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