Quote by Massimo Pigliucci

“We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.”

— J. Scott Duvall

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,

— Bret Easton Ellis

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

— Joseph Pearce

“...we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make meanings because…

— Benjamin Hale

“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within”

— George Eliot

“Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is…

— Ramon C. Sunico

“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation,…

— José Saramago

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“That, too, was one of his rules: Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take…

— Elif Shafak

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of…

— Winston Churchill

“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct,…

— Tony Vigorito