“The shifty language of politics,… that strange language full of Maya and falsities of self-illusion and deliberate delusion of others, which almost immediately turns all true and vivid phrases into a jargon, so that men may fight in a cloud of words without any clear sense of the thing they are battling for….”

Preface (Scribner edition, 1872) <!-- New York, Scribner p xxi -->
Chips from a German Workshop (1866)
Context: Missionaries are apt to look upon all other religions as something totally distinct from their own, as formerly they used to describe the languages of barbarous nations as something more like the twittering of birds than the articulate speech of men. The Science of Language has taught us that there is order and wisdom in all languages, and even the most degraded jargons contain the ruins of former greatness and beauty. The Science of Religion, I hope, will produce a similar change in our views of barbarous forms of faith and worship; and missionaries, instead of looking only for points of difference, will look out more anxiously for any common ground, any spark of the true light that may still be revived, any altar that may be dedicated afresh to the true God.
And even to us at home, a wider view of the religious life of the world may teach many a useful lesson.

Source: Psychotherapy, East and West (1961), p. 9

Source: Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964), pp. 5-6

Quoted in The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970) by Walter Jackson Bate.

"Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111
The Bureau of Sabotage series, Whipping Star (1969)

Source: A Dream of John Ball (1886), Ch. 4: The Voice of John Ball

interview with Johns conducted in 1975 at Johns’ studio by Yoshiaki Tono, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 89
1970s

&quot; New Textbooks for the &quot;New&quot; Mathematics http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/2362/1/feynman.pdf&quot;, Engineering and Science volume 28, number 6 (March 1965) p. 9-15 at p. 14 <br class="br">Paraphrased as &quot;Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.&quot;