John Austin Quotes

Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word.

Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can re-look at the world without blinkers.