Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"Everything is bicycle"

Stephen Crane, Writer

"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times"

David Ben-Gurion, Statesman

"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"But words - words are not enough!"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Sex is energy"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"

Julio Cortazar, Writer

"People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"We turn the Cube and it twists us"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force"

Francis Parker Yockey, Writer

"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes"

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theologian

"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique"

Bill Condon, Director

"I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do"

Rihanna, Musician

"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one"

Frank Miller, Artist

"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb"

Mark Strand, Poet

"I'm not on any crusade"

Don Henley, Musician

"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence"

Jared Diamond, Author

"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"But ultimately, what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"We seem to think we have some control over this planet"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"The dimensions of my feelings are too violent"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"

Halle Berry, Actress

"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

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