It’s fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to...

Words cannot only be made… But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

Unless followed by the world ‘education’, liberal has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake — i.e. ‘freely’ with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the...

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

All we have to do is understand that we’re all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that...

Thoughts make sense not really with the beautiful rhyming on the words part,but with their real meaning touching a beautiful person’s heart.

what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and...

We commonly speak as though a single ‘thing’ could ‘have’ some characteristic. A stone, we say, is ‘hard,’ ‘small,’ ‘heavy,’ ‘yellow,’ ‘dense,’ etc. That is how our language is made: ‘The stone is hard.’ And...

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of...

It is commonplace to talk as if the world “has” meaning, to ask what “is” the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events...

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?