Remains Quote by Gregory Maguire

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

— Francis Ponge

“Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.”

— Lao Tzu

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

— Jerome A. Cohen

“Without expanding on the greater or lesser accuracy of a name which nobody, I should hope, can really be expected to understand, I will…

— Gustave Courbet

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

— Pierre Bonnard

“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers,…

— Ambrose Bierce

“The anonymous puts the name in place, leaves it empty, as if the name were there only to let itself be passed through because…

— Maurice Blanchot

Someone says a name you don't know and you ask 'Oh which case is that?'

— Anonymous

“Names are deeply meaningful to your brain, and misleading names add chaos to your code.”

— Andrew Hunt

“I will not put a name to what has no name,”

— Shirley Jackson

We all have names we don't know about.

— Martin Amis