Author: Charles Yu

Cites

• Edward Sapir (1)
  • IN: Sorry Please Thank You (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone... but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society... The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
    FROM: The Status Of Linguistics As A Science (1929), p. 69, (1929), Book, US
• Benjamin Lee Whorf (1)
  • IN: Sorry Please Thank You (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.
    FROM: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings, (1956), Book, US
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Sorry Please Thank You (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sorry.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• David Hume (2)
  • IN: How to Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception. A man is a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux and movement.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1739), Book, UK
  • IN: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception. A man is a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux and movement.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1940), Book, UK
• David Deutsch (2)
  • IN: How to Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time does not flow. Other times are just special case of other universes.
    FROM: The Fabric of Reality, (1997), Book, UK
  • IN: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time does not flow. Other times are just special cases of other universes.
    FROM: The Fabric of Reality, (1996), Book, UK
• Arthur Miller (2)
  • IN: How to Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
    FROM: Timebends: A Life, (1987), Book, US
  • IN: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
    FROM: Timebends: A Life, (1987), Book, US