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.
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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.
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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