Society Quote by Richard Mitchell

“That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make…

— Richard Mitchell

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not…

— Richard Mitchell

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for…

— Richard Mitchell

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a…

— Richard Mitchell

A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who…

— Richard Mitchell

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging…

— Richard Mitchell

“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical sense. It…

— Richard Mitchell

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the…

— Richard Mitchell

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice…

— Richard Mitchell

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing…

— Richard Mitchell

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

— Richard Mitchell