78 Quotes About Semantics

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

The most pitiful thing we can do is try to describe life.

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

Poetry is the art of hiding the inadequacy of language.

How the seen looks depends on how the seer sees.

I don't think of it as avoiding, he said. I think of it as another opportunity to practice ignoring things that bug me.—Steady Practice

You cannot say something about something without revealing something about yourself.

Our description of what we are seeing ought to be begun with the word 'apparently'.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.