top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."
Standard
Customized
More
""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The first is last, and the last is first."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."
First
"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."
Confusion
"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
Language
"To be is to be the value of a variable."
Values
"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
Nature
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
Meaning
"One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy."
Fancy
"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."
Change
"Language is a social art."
Art
"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."
Philosophy
bottom of page