“Nothing exists except through language.”

“Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.”

“Mathematics, too, is a language, and as concerns its structure and content it is the most perfect language which exists, superior to any vernacular; indeed, since it is understood by every people, mathematics may be called the language of languages. Through it, as it were, nature herself speaks; through it the Creator of the world has spoken, and through it the Preserver of the world continues to speak.”

“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”

“Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane.”

“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”

“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”

“Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”