Geach, Peter

"To understand is to see why something must be so."

"A principle accepted but not understood is a principle waiting to be abandoned."

"Language shapes what we can think; expand it carefully."

"To speak honestly requires courage in every age."

"The philosopher is condemned to question what others accept."

"A weak argument given confidently remains a weak argument."

"To think clearly about one thing is to make progress on all things."

"The meaning of a word is its use in the world."

"A belief without reasons is a belief without foundation."

"To dismiss an argument unheard is to dismiss reason itself."

"The mind that seeks comfort over truth is a mind in chains."

"A question sincerely asked is halfway to enlightenment."

"To understand another is to understand oneself better."

"The pursuit of philosophy is the pursuit of freedom."

"A word misunderstood is a thought corrupted."

"To think is to stand apart; to live is to stand together."

"The philosopher's task is to clarify, not to mystify."

"A principle lived imperfectly is better than a principle never attempted."

"The problem of universals is the central problem of metaphysics."

"Reference is not a word-to-thing relation that holds antecedently to the language system."

"Good English is not a matter of following arbitrary rules; it is a matter of using language effectively."

"A proposition is a thought that can be expressed in language."

"To understand a name is to know what object bears it."

"Logical analysis reveals the true structure of reality."

"We must distinguish between what is said and what is meant."

"The verb 'to be' has many different uses in natural language."

"Aristotle's doctrine of substance remains the most plausible metaphysics."

"Abstract objects do not exist in the way concrete objects do."

"The unity of a proposition lies in the unity of its constituent thoughts."

"To deny the reality of abstract objects is to adopt nominalism."