I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word..

The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . . . it's a very intimidating place. The….

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that q….

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch th….

The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless ca….

Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better tha….

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is n….

Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's fu….

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape….

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs..

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write..

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups..