Austin, John Langshaw

"Think of the tools in a toolbox."

"The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man."

"A name is not a description."

"The sense of the world must lie outside the world."

"Language is the vehicle of thought."

"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use."

"We are still thinking of a language as it might be."

"Grammar is not natural law."

"What counts is the sense of the whole."

"In order to understand a sentence we need to know what fact would make it true."

"A proposition is a picture of reality."

"Facts do not determine meaning."

"The nonsensical cannot be said."

"Clarity is the goal of all philosophy."

"We have misconstrued the logic of our ordinary language."

"Thinking is the activity that structures reality."

"All that philosophy can do is to destroy idols."

"Look at the practice and the meaning will become clear."

"To be sure of a thing is to know it only too well."

"The words do not speak for themselves."

"There is not an object called meaning."

"What is meant is often different from what is said."

"We do not understand the grammar of our concepts."

"Meaning is use, and use is social."

"The self is not found in the world."

"We are in the grip of a picture that holds us captive."

"Language did not come to us complete."

"Words have no fixed essence."

"The proposition is a picture of a possible fact."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."