Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

Language is a social art.

Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.