Conventions Quote by Anonymous

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object…

— Alfred Korzybski

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

— Thomas Paine

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

— Werner Heisenberg

There are things that can only be conveyed through words.

— Kreyzii

Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all

— Jean Fautrier

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

— Edward Albee

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

— Haruki Murakami

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all…

— Joseph Fourier

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.

— Wolfgang Pauli