Bewitchment

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

A Wonderful Thing

Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.

Dead Language

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Stevenson

The Need to Complain

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lilly Tomlin

Language of Painters

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Van Gogh

Solitude

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”
Paul Tillich

Archive of History

“Language is the archives of history”

Two Languages

“I speak two languages, Body and English.”

Embodiment

A word, cannot exist outside of its embodiment

Never the Same

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ~Antonio Porchia

Terrible Fear

The French, have a terrible fear of consonants

Viruses

A word is a virus....therefore you must butcher it, chop it up and render it meaningless

Versions of Certainty

dictionaries seek to define words with certainty and that is the way they relate to knowledge
no one dictionary can provide full certainty of a word across all contexts
any one dictionary is A dictionary not THE dictionary, it is a version always and already

Saturated with Time

words are saturated with time, we are saturated with words for we are temporal beings

Plasticity

there is a certain plasticity to words where they can mold to fit your world but other times, they don't bend the way you want them to

Synthesis

word: synthesis of body and concept

Ecology of All Ecologies

dictionary is a medium to life
words have a very strange relationship to one another
each word has its own internal law, its own internal ecology
dictionary is the ecology of all ecologies

Cosmos

if language performs, then a dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos

City of Words

Painted Fire

"words are painted fire; a look is the fire itself"