It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the sub… - Richard M. Weaver

All of us have had the experience of finding a particularly felicitous phrase in poetry and of feeling: “This is what the world really means; he has hit it closer than anyone has ever hit it before.”

In recognizing that words have the power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called “emotion” and its concomitant evaluation.

The complete man, then, is the “lover” added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.