An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

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

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

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