"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 relook at the world without blinkers."

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Source : "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 182, 1979.

J. L. Austin

#Needs Quotes #World Quotes #Littles Quotes

“All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.”
“If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.”
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”

Source : Henry Gee (1999). “In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life”, p.136, Cornell University Press
“Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.”
“Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.”
“Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.”
“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. Iâ€™m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name -- modern slavery.”
“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

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