Who said “Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of…”?

“All words are pegs to hang ideas upon.”

“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

“The words of the world want to make sentences.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”

“Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.”

“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

“It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.”

“Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”