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Man exists in a world of his own creation.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)
Success but sharpens his avidity, and facility but augments his impatience.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)
All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We [generally and incorrectly] reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)
To fix the fluctuating mass of theories, no man has suggested any other expedient than the construction of some new theory, to whose authority... all persons shall submit. The remedy is constantly augmenting the disease.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)