“The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“When a word is used to provoke hatred, it does not matter what the word actually means. What matters is only what the haters insist it means - the meaning they give it, the common prejudices they exploit.”
"The Power of Words" (1978)
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