top of page

"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
May,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more May quotes

"Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where."

"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."

"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."

"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."

"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,

"We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales."

"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."
Explore more quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine


"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."


"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."


"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."


"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."


"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."
bottom of page