Wilfrid Sellars famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.
-- Wilfrid Sellars

#Thoughtful #Thinking #Speech
To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.
-- Wilfrid Sellars

#Order #Color #Knowing
The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.
-- Wilfrid Sellars

#Taken #Thinking #Thoughtful

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
And empty heads console with empty sound.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Slurring is the cursive of speech...

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