“I'm apt to get drunk on words… Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”

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American writer 1918–2007

John F. Sowa (1940) artificial intelligence researcher

John F. Sowa, "Building, Sharing and Merging Ontologies" http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/ontoshar.htm on jfsowa.com. Last Modified: 01/18/2009.

“The Biblical words about the genesis of heaven and earth are not words of information but words of appreciation. The story of creation is not a description of how the world came into being but a song about the glory of the world's having come into being.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

The Wisdom of Heschel (1970), p. 150

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

“His last words were spoken to a woman, to the nurse who was holding his hand. Perhaps we all have the last words ready when we go into the last room. Perhaps the thing about last words is not how good they are, but whether we can get them out. What Larkin said faintly was, "I'm going to the inevitable."”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)

“Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.
You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

§ 120
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.”

Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954) American electrical engineer and inventor

As quoted in "Edwin Armstrong : Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2002/Armstrong.html <br class="br">Unsourced variant: Men like to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

“Tony the Beat Poet says the words alone, lonely and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language. I agree with Tony. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.”

Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

“Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
The Golden Verses

“Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 469 (1928) (Holmes, J., dissenting).
1920s

“I'm apt to get drunk on words… Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”

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