No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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