Quote by Austin, John Langshaw
"The true object of tragedy is to excite pity and fear, but also to purify the mind through aesthetic experience."
More from Austin, John Langshaw
"When I say I am using the word in a normal way I am not then saying something which is false whatever I may say."
"The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them."
"How to do things with words."
"Knowledge is not a tool which can be shelved or unshelved at will."