Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be nam...ed; what is clearest is unutterable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from lan...guage we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of sha...red experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of tr...uth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.... But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although... rarely, think.... This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »