Cases Quote by Thomas Reid

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful and great…

— Dejan Stojanovic

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to…

— William James

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

— William James

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute…

— Charles D. Broad

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly…

— Charles Babbage

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a…

— Moses Mendelssohn

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

— John le Carre

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

— Hippocrates

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

— Suhasini Maniratnam