It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Identity is invariably false to facts.
It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
. . . the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.
I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.