Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
