Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued.
I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.
