How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
Context: People want to stand for something, which means opposing those who stand for something else. In the course of opposing they will often resort to insults and name-calling, which are normal in politics though never in your interest. The demand for more civility in politics today should be directed toward improving the quality of our insults, seeking civility in wit rather than blandness.
[2] Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, 2.1 : Porphyry strikes back, 2.1.1 : Is a definition an interpretation?
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Context: A sign is not only something which stands for something else; it is also something that can and must be interpreted. The criterion of interpretability allows us to start from a given sign to cover, step by step, the whole universe of semiosis.
“I wanted something different—something to make me stand out and for people to notice.”
Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Tony Esposito," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep198801.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2002-03-04)
Esposito explains why he chose to wear the number 35, instead of the more standard goaltender numbers 1 and 30.
Interview by Nicki Gostin, Newsweek, Updated: 10:46 a.m. ET March 11, 2005
David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015).
2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 9 at resologist.net
“Anyone who wants something else is Jewish.”
Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 13.
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Interview with the Hollywood Reporter (4 February 2020)
