Semantics Quotes

38 quotes by 28 authors

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics. — Ilona Andrews
With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,'… — Patrick Rothfuss
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would… — Amanda Hocking
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about;… — Alfred Korzybski
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry… — Tom Stoppard
I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end. — Cary Fukunaga
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. — George F Will
I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles
Whatever you say it is, it isn't. — Alfred Korzybski
I think that, on the reconciliation issue, if they had the votes, we wouldn't have had the summit. And if they try to go through… — Marsha Blackburn
The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank… — Alfred Korzybski
It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill. — Alfred Korzybski
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the… — Alfred Korzybski
A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class… — Alfred Korzybski
In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the… — Alfred Korzybski
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry… — Alfred Korzybski
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old… — Alfred Korzybski
We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly lost… — Jules Carlysle

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