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J. L. Austin (Philosopher)

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

— J. L. Austin responsibility

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

— J. L. Austin words

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

— J. L. Austin language

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

— J. L. Austin character

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

— J. L. Austin philosophy

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin aging

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

— J. L. Austin history

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

— J. L. Austin true

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but dont accept full, or even any, responsibility.

— J L Austin responsibility

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