The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.