But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.' --Austin, Papers 49.

In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed…

It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence. --Austin, Papers 56.

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? --Austin, Papers 38.

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as mos…

Throw away the lights, the definitions, And say of what you see in the dark That it is this or that it is that, But do not use the rotted names. How should you…

What the artist wishes to do - as far as you are concerned - is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.