Strictly Speaking Quote by John Stuart Mill

“We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.”

— Maurice Blanchot

“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.”

— Aldous Huxley

“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real…

— Holly Black

“It had no ornament, no defining characteristic. No argument, no message. It fulfilled its structural role but aspired to nothing further.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Shirley Jackson

“There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.”

— Lance Conrad

“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”

— Alberto Caeiro

“Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been…

— Malorie Blackman

“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”

— Terry Pratchett

“But it can happen that a phrase intended to indicate a state beyond concepts just becomes another concept in itself, in the same way…

— Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

“It's incredible to me to think that all these objects can hold so much meaning, but at the end of the day they're objects…

— Julie Murphy

“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