Mimetic Quote by René Girard

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

— Anonymous

“Make No Distinctions”

— Lin Yutang

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“And yet in too many cases, this is what business has been reduced to: the artful packaging of meaningless distinctions as true differentiation.”

— Youngme Moon

“Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.”

— Toba Beta

“Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.”

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

“Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.”

— Albert Einstein

“How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough