Willard van Orman Quine Quotes

Language is a social art.

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by de...

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but bel...

Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make...

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and ...

Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of conn...

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor d...

To be is to be the value of a variable.

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for ...