Universal Lexicon

Famous quotes containing the words universal and/or lexicon:

“Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Psychobabble is ... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It’s an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.”
—Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)