Linguistic Paradox Quotes

Why do u drive on a parkway and park in the driveway. Its messed up.

'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.

God is the word that speaks itself.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

If truth doesn't exist, then it would be true that truth doesn't exist, and once again we arrive at truth. There is no alternative; truth must exist.

To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

If a word means everything, then in means nothing.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.