Ordinary Language Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first… — Thomas Nagel
• The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak… — Werner Heisenberg
• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. — J L Austin
• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical… — Bertrand Russell
• No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to… — David Jenkins
• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in… — Paul Ricoeur
• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead
• There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the… — C. K. Williams
• And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride… — Terry Eagleton
• It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code. — William Stafford
• Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. — Bertrand Russell
• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate,… — Paul Engle
• Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. — Peter Frederick Strawson

Who Wrote These Ordinary Language Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 Ordinary Language Quotes as follows:

• 2 Ordinary Language Quotes by Paul Engle
• 2 Ordinary Language Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 2 Ordinary Language Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Peter Frederick Strawson
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Thomas Nagel
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Werner Heisenberg
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by J L Austin
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by David Jenkins
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Paul Ricoeur
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by C. K. Williams
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Michel de Montaigne
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by Terry Eagleton
• 1 Ordinary Language Quote by William Stafford