Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

Civilization is sterilization.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.