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“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.”

Ifs Men Said Age Lasts Language Generations Ordinary Stones Claims Philosophical Metaphysics Last Words Something Better Stone Age Acumen

Author:J. L. Austin

“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.”

Thinking Knows World Problem Remember Existence Boys Morality Stones Philosophical Teenager Typical Identical Objectivity Existence Of God

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”

Ifs Philosophy Seems Spiritual Effects Stones Philosophical Physics Observers Observing

Book:An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

Source: An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

“God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.”

Knows Stones Philosophical Woods

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.”

Soul Light Form Stars Written Communication Stones Crosses Philosophical Bridges Rays Written Word Spoken Word Tolerable Rays Of Light

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.”

Dies Sports Animal Boys Stones Philosophical Earnest Frogs Animal Cruelty Animal Life Animal Ethics

Author:Bion of Borysthenes