The menu is not the meal.
Alan W. WattsStichwörter: words philosophy power-of-words language metaphysics names nominalism
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Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.
“Does your mother call you Pigeon?”
“No.”
“Then to me you are Paul.”
...
“Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read.
“My mother never calls me Nathan.”
“Is it Nate?”
“She calls me Honeylips.
Stichwörter: humor names nicknames
Names have power.
Rick RiordanStichwörter: power names conjuring
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Winston S. ChurchillYou are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.
Jane YolenStichwörter: names
That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies.
Jack KerouacStichwörter: delusion names uncut-block yggdrasil
I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.
Julia GlassEvery name is real. That's the nature of names.
Jerry SpinelliStichwörter: names
Everybody should customize their names.
Charles BaxterStichwörter: names
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan W. WattsStichwörter: wisdom power-of-words civilization responsibility names culture
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