Meanings Of Words Quotes

• La herramienta básica para la manipulación de la realidad es la manipulación de las palabras. Si se puede controlar el significado de las palabras, se puede controlar a las personas que deben utilizarlas.

  Philip K. Dick

  Escritura, Realidad, Gente

  1986 Espero llegar pronto,'Cómo construir un universo que no se desmorone a los dos días'.

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• ¡Cuán extrañamente las herramientas de un tirano pervierten el significado de las palabras!

  Samuel Adams

  Tyrants, Tools, Tyranny

  Samuel Adams (1968). "Los escritos de Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777"

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• The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

  Antístenes

  Clarity, Investigation, Communicate

  "Discourses of Epictetus". Book by Arrian, I, 17,

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• Centrarse únicamente en el significado de las palabras y las frases tiene algo de miope y atrofiado. Y esta miopía es especialmente desafortunada cuando se combina con una visión bastante abstracta de una lengua como un conjunto de elementos y reglas para combinarlos. El resultado es divorciar la investigación del significado de la atención al modo en que las palabras -y los gestos, las expresiones faciales, los rituales, etc.- se insertan en las prácticas, en lo que Wittgenstein denominó "la corriente de la vida".

  David E. Cooper

  Divorcio, Expresión, Práctica

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

  Guy Debord

  Writing, Expression, Ideas

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.98, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Significar, Pensar, Comprender

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• El continuo y progresivo cambio al que está sujeto el significado de las palabras, la falta de un lenguaje universal que hace necesaria la traducción, los errores a los que están sujetas las traducciones, los errores de copistas e impresores, junto con la posibilidad de alteración voluntaria, son en sí mismos evidencias de que el lenguaje humano, ya sea hablado o impreso, no puede ser el vehículo de la Palabra de Dios.

  Thomas Paine

  Ateo, Error, Errores

  Thomas Paine (2016). "THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Obras Políticas, Escritos Filosóficos, Discursos, Cartas y Biografía (Incluyendo Sentido Común, Los Derechos del Hombre y La Edad de la Razón): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington...", p.406, e-artnow

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• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  Arthur Schuster

  Powerful, Lying, Science

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• The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

  Deena Metzger

  Political, World, Language

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

  Plutarch

  Mean, Understanding

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1439, Delphi Classics

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• Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Games, Jurisprudence

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• In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Silence, Literature

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• How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Together

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• The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

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• In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.

  Paul Auster

  Connections, World, Way

  Paul Auster (1982). “The Invention of Solitude”

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• It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

  Wilson Follett

  Utilización

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• La escritura y la interpretación deben profundizar en el significado de las palabras, deben iluminar, transfigurar y transformar.

  Ganchos de campana

  Escribir, Debería, Actuar

  bell hooks (2013). "El rapto recordado: la escritora trabajando", p.36, Macmillan.

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• Los filósofos estiran el significado de las palabras hasta que apenas conservan nada de su sentido original. Dan el nombre de "Dios" a alguna vaga abstracción que han creado para sí mismos; habiendo hecho esto, pueden posar ante todo el mundo como deístas, como creyentes en Dios, e incluso pueden jactarse de haber reconocido un concepto más elevado y más puro de Dios, a pesar de que su Dios no es más que una sombra insustancial y ya no es la poderosa personalidad de las doctrinas religiosas.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religioso, Nombres, Dar

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). "La edición estándar de las obras psicológicas completas de Sigmund Freud"

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• La poesía contemporánea ... intenta transformar de nuevo el signo en sentido:
  su ideal, en última instancia, sería alcanzar no el significado de las palabras, sino el
  significado de las cosas mismas. Por eso enturbia el lenguaje, aumenta
  aumenta todo lo que puede la abstracción del concepto y la arbitrariedad
  del signo y estira hasta el límite el vínculo entre significante y significado.

  Roland Barthes

  Nubes, Intentar, Serían

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). "Barthes: Escritos escogidos".

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• Si aceptamos que no existe el "riesgo cero", entonces no debemos tergiversar el significado de las palabras con afirmaciones como "todos los accidentes son evitables".

  Rob Long

  Cero, Riesgo, Aceptar

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• The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

  Tucídides

  Wisdom, Men, Coward

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

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• The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Soul, Solitude, Secret

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.71, Beacon Press

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• A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

  Gore Vidal

  Self, Concern For Others, Greed

  "Screening History (Growing Up With Gore Vidal)". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 24), 1994.

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• Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Consciousness

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• Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.

  Constance Hale

  Home, Adventure, News Stories

  "Writing for the ear" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. June 13, 2012.

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