The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.