Storm Jameson Quotes

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Words are the small change of thought.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Symbols are important.

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.