Austin, John Langshaw

"Problems arise when language goes on holiday."

"Understanding a proposition means knowing what is the case if it is true."

"The elementary proposition is a function of names."

"One cannot think illogically; one can only think falsely."

"The totality of true thoughts is the picture of the world."

"Nothing is hidden; everything lies in the open."

"We make ourselves pictures of facts."

"Form and content are separable in thought but not in reality."

"Language disguises the thought."

"The essence of language is to say something."

"An elementary proposition is a concatenation of names."

"It is dangerous to read the newspapers because one might be infected by global panic."

"The riddle of life in space and time, if we could only solve it, would lose all its meaning."

"A man can be a resolute follower of the Buddha and yet remain a Western man."

"The picture is attached to reality; it reaches right up to it."

"What is the good? The good is to lead a decent life in a world of strife."

"Teaching is the most difficult profession in the world."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose."

"Think of the world of Brueghel, where one is lost in vast, complex landscapes."

"One could imagine someone arguing passionately, in a manner at first glance fanatical, for a proposition."

"To be at peace with oneself is the highest achievement."

"A man's manners reflect his faith."

"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."

"A name means an object. The object is its meaning."

"It occurs to us that we should call a sentence a proposition only in cases where we can ask: true or false?"

"The true method of philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing except what can be said."

"Don't think, but look!"

"If someone says he has no doubt what he has said, then I can be sure that he has said nothing."

"I became a Christian at about the age of fifteen."

"To say nothing about what is and what is not the case is to say nothing about logic."