13 definitions
Admiration (n.) is rooted in novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
Enthusiasm (n.) is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Fanaticism (n.) is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions : but it rectifies none of them.
A Lie (n.) has no legs, and cannot stand, but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
A Metaphor (n.) is indeed but a similitude in little: men so conversant in matter still wanted sensible images to convey abstract ideas.
A Metaphor (n.) was not a warm poetic fancy but a necessity: man turns his wants and necessities into parade and ornament, in speech and writing as in clothes.
Orthodoxy (n.) is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Philosophy (n.) is the name of what hastens writing's desacralizing: economic corruption that abridges and erases the signifier for the sake of the signified.
Philosophy (n.) is the invention of prose; the history of philosophy is the history of prose, or rather of the becoming-prose of the world.
Pictography (n.) is a closed and mute system where speech has no right of entry: the first writing is a painted image.
The Signifier (n.) is erased by degrees, as attention slides off the symbol and settles on the thing it signifies.
Speech (n.) is not innate: by the nature of things alone, men first lived in woods and caves, uttering confused sounds until association made them articulate.