« The purpose of philosophical grammar was clearly to develop a psychological theory and not a textual interpretation technique. The theory claims that the underlying deep structure, with its abstract organization of linguistic forms, is "present in mind" when the signal, with its superficial structure, is emitted or perceived by human organs. `...` There must be, represented in the mind, a fixed system of generative principles that characterize and associate deep and superficial structures - in other words a grammar that is used in a certain way when statements are produced or interpreted. `...` The problem of determining the character of such grammars and the principles that govern them is characteristic of science. »

« --Propaganda is to democracies what violence is to dictatorships. --If you don't believe in freedom of expression for people you despise, you don't believe in it at all. -- Indoctrination is by no means incompatible with democracy, it is the essence of it. -- In a well-oiled society, you don't say what you know, you say what's useful to power. »

« Goodman correctly points out at one point that although "I have no other explanation for some remarkable facts. . . . this alone does not require me to accept any theory offered, for the theory may be worse than its absence. The inability to explain a fact does not condemn me to accept an inherently repugnant and incomprehensible theory. »