If a conceptual distinction is to be made the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language it cannot be made conceptually.
Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts man comes pretty close t...
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.
Every word that i utter had already been said in the spirit realm.
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
There was so much to say that we said nothing.
Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passiona...
The best sword that kills without a wound:-WORDS...!Killed without Trace...
She couldn't tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.
doubters only doubt what they doubt
Everybody is a writer. Everybody has a hand. Everybody has a story. Everybody writes stories of life from dawn to dusk. Everybody has a pen. Everybody has inks. These are the inks for writing the stor...
I thought I would be understood without words.
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
If words are not music, they have failed your song.
The world is made up of words.
Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the B...