... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well.… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Objections to Christianity... are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image