Austin, John Langshaw

"The limits of language mean the limits of my world."

"Understanding is similar to understanding a musical theme."

"The task of philosophy is to work on ourselves."

"We create the world through language."

"A word does not stand for a thing in isolation."

"The meaning of a question is the method of answering it."

"Facts arrange themselves in propositions."

"We are captive in the prison house of language."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"What cannot be imagined cannot be done."

"To know is to understand how it all fits together."

"Philosophy begins with wonder, not argument."

"The philosopher is a therapist."

"Sentences are instruments for a purpose."

"We need a new way of looking at the old facts."

"Language is a labyrinth of paths."

"The proposition shows that which it means."

"Names are like labels on things."

"What we cannot think we cannot say."

"The general form of the proposition is a variable."

"We have failed to understand the use of words."

"Language is a form of life."

"All confusion disappears if we understand the grammar of our words."

"Meaning grows through use."

"The world is not fixed by facts alone."

"To understand is to see connections."

"Words are not mere names."

"The picture holds us captive."

"A sentence is a name of a fact."

"We speak to communicate shared forms of life."