L. P. Jacks Quote

Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having accepted it, a distinction remains to be observed, a distinction of capital importance, which we are in constant danger of forgetting. It is one thing to find the Permanent; it is another thing to find a form of words in which the Permanent shall stand permanently expressed. It is one thing to experience something fixed and changeless; it is another thing to fix this something by a changeless definition. The first may be possible, while the second remains impossible for ever.


The Usurpation Of Language (1910)


Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having...

Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having...

Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having...

Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having...