Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.
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… - Stanley Cavell
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…
- Stanley Cavell
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… - Stanley Cavell
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…
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. - Stanley Cavell
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. - Stanley Cavell
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better tha… - Stanley Cavell
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better tha…
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… - Stanley Cavell
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 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… - Stanley Cavell
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…
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… - Stanley Cavell
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…
Philosophy is the education of grown-ups. - Stanley Cavell
Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.
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