Bryant H. McGill Quotes

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?

When you connect to your source, you can create anything you'd like to have in your life.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.