It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things things. It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.


Relativism and the Use of Language, p. 121. - Language is Sermonic (1970)

Richard Weaver Quotes

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things things. It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make...

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things things. It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make...

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things things. It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make...

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things things. It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make...