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Jerry: So Kramer, what are you going to do now?
Kramer: Do? Do? I'm doing what I do! I've always done what I do. Just doin' what I do. The way I've always done it. And the way I'll always do it.
George: Kramer... what the hell are you talking about?
Seinfeld Season 4 Episode 2 The Trip Part 2

When philosophers use a word — 'knowledge', 'being', 'object', 'I', 'proposition', 'name' — and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home? — What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

13. Use the right word, not its second cousin.

The key words in this kind of writing are 'death', 'life', 'birth', 'sun', 'moon', 'womb', 'cosmic' and 'catastrophe', and by free use of them the most banal statement can be made to sound picturesque, while what is outright meaningless can be given an air of mystery and profundity. Even the title of this book, 'The Cosmological Eye', doesn't actually mean anything, but it sounds as though it ought to mean something.
George Orwell, review of The Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller

I don't really know what he just said, but I think it sounded cool, so yay!

[on characterizing Ozpin] "I just made up the most nonsensical bullshit I could and took a step back and was like… Yeah, that’s it. That’s something this fucker would say."
— Fanfiction author xekstrin

As a teenager [Marcus] Borg lost his faith in God, Christ, and the Bible. But a few years after graduating from seminary, he had a number of mystical experiences which gave him a new concept of God. He says, "I realized that God does not refer to a supernatural being ‘out there’ . . . . Rather God refers to the sacred at the center of existence, the holy mystery that is all around and within us." Now if you intone these words the right way, they might sound very meaningful and profound. But really this is pretty thin soup as an understanding of God. What does Borg mean when he says, "God is more than everything and yet everything is in God"?

Darwin: Well, love is in the air. It's in your heart, in the eyes of others. It's in the way people touch, the way people talk, and it's all over the universe!
Bobert: If I understand you correctly, you have narrowed the definition of love down to "everything" and "everywhere" and "everyone". (error sound) Does not compute.

Stewart: Ah, Peter. Glad we could hook up. Just wanted to take a couple of turns with you on the ideas carousel, yeah? Think of ways we can turn your team into a little cluster of excellence.
Peter: Oh, you mean you wanted to have a chat.

"No one denies the need for a specialized vocabulary in biochemistry or physics or in technical areas of the humanities like linguistics. But among literature professors who do what they now call "theory" — mostly inept philosophy applied to literature and culture — jargon has become the emperor's clothing of choice. [...] The pretentiousness of the worst academic writing betrays it as a kind of intellectual kitsch, analogous to bad art that declares itself "profound" or "moving" not by displaying its own intrinsic value but by borrowing these values from elsewhere. Just as a cigar box is elevated by a Rembrandt painting, or a living room is dignified by sets of finely bound but unread books, so these kitsch theorists mimic the effects of rigor and profundity without actually doing serious intellectual work. Their jargon-laden prose always suggests but never delivers genuine insight [...] To ask what this means is to miss the point. This sentence beats readers into submission and instructs them that they are in the presence of a great and deep mind. Actual communication has nothing to do with it."

"Zardoz is an exercise in competent incompetence: it's a film that has ideas, explores those ideas, and executes those ideas well without seemingly realizing how questionable some of those ideas are."
SF Debris's review of Zardoz

Much of the contest so far has involved the candidates fretting about how the party can be more pro-business. It is not even clear what they mean by this word “business”. Are they worried about small businesses that care about being able to borrow money; manufacturing businesses that care about high growth; transnational businesses that care about you taking your tax bill and shoving it up your arse; or the banking business, which doesn’t care whether anybody lives or dies but would like a lot of hot Russian mafia money to flash about the dying nervous system of the finance industry as though we’re treating Aids with cocaine? Obviously, those are all interests that sometimes oppose each other in various ways.

It's a Kingdom Hearts cutscene. You can say any words in any order. "Darkness darkness light dark heart dark memories light dark friendship darkness." In fact, for the rest of this video, let's replace the word "darkness" with "bees", and it'll make exactly as much sense.

The circumspect siloing of omnibus photovoltaic Mysteries of Eleusis which is purported to be a sort of epistemological Sword of Damocles in extremis paradoxically or ironically recapitulates this sort of meta cacophony of cognitively intense albeit substrate dependent phantasmagorical noospheres. All the noises I've made in the last five minutes have been completely unnecessary.

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