Conceptual Analysis Quotes

#1. Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit.

Patricia Churchland

#2. Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can we say are the two most important concept results of all that effort?

Patricia Churchland

#3. I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

Patricia Churchland

#4. When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

Patricia Churchland

#5. I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).

Robert Adams

#6. Our bodies were printed as blank pages
to be filled with the ink of our hearts

Michael Biondi

#7. From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Eyvind Johnson

#8. We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

Tupac Shakur

#10. Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Andre Weil

#11. We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. I wanted to hit him.
I wanted to hold him.
I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

Jonathan Safran Foer