Philosophy Quotes

"Concepts are not mental pictures."

"Philosophy is the dissolution of philosophical problems."

"Consciousness is not a private theatre."

"Intention is not a separate mental act."

"Meaning arises from social practice and use."

"Paradoxes arise from confused use of language."

"The mind is not an instrument but an achievement."

"To explain behavior is to show its point."

"Philosophical problems dissolve through proper clarification."

"Meaning is not in the mind but in the use of words."

"Consciousness is not a spectator of life but a participant."

"The private language argument shows the necessity of public standards."

"Reasons for action are not private inner causes."

"Philosophy is not the ascent to the abstract but the descent to the concrete."

"The person is an embodied agent, not a disembodied mind."

"Concepts carve nature at its joints."

"The metaphysician's task is to map the logical geography of our concepts."

"Universals are not mystical entities, but rather the ways things genuinely are alike."

"Necessity and possibility are not merely subjective categories but objective features of the world."

"Abstract objects pose no greater mystery than concrete ones once we abandon prejudices."

"The unity of an object is as real as the object itself."

"Relations are as real and fundamental as the things they relate."

"We discover rather than invent the principles of identity and difference."

"Existence is not a predicate, but what predicates apply to."

"The question of whether abstract objects exist cannot be dismissed as merely verbal."

"The relation between particulars and universals is neither symmetrical nor obvious."

"Identity is not a relation that objects bear to themselves or other things."

"The problem of composition reveals the depth of ordinary ontology."

"Identity conditions are not arbitrary but flow from the nature of things."

"Abstract objects are no more or less mysterious than space and time."