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The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Alfred Korzybski
Levels, Silent, Fingers
Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.399, Institute of GS
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.