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| 7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
| 19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
| 15045 | The big issue since the eighteenth century has been: what is Reason? Its effect, limits and dangers? [Foucault] |
| 19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
| 7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
| 22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
| 19588 | The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis] |
| 19598 | Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis] |
| 19586 | Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis] |
| 19587 | Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis] |
| 7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
| 15038 | Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault] |
| 7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
| 21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 19574 | If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions [Novalis] |
| 15044 | 'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable [Foucault] |
| 15042 | Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault] |
| 19571 | Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis] |
| 19597 | Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis] |
| 15105 | F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W] |
| 19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
| 19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
| 12408 | Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W] |
| 22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
| 12397 | Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W] |
| 19575 | Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis] |
| 15037 | Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault] |
| 12399 | There was a young student called Fred... [Sommers,W] |
| 12407 | Barman to Descartes: Would you like another drink?... [Sommers,W] |
| 20963 | A philosopher and his wife are out for a drive... [Sommers,W] |
| 12402 | ..But if he's a student of Berkeley... [Sommers,W] |
| 12404 | Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd.... [Sommers,W] |
| 12403 | There once was a man who said: 'God... [Sommers,W] |
| 12409 | The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [Sommers,W] |
| 22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
| 14694 | "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W] |
| 19572 | Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience [Novalis] |
| 19590 | Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis] |
| 12401 | A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W] |
| 7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
| 21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 19594 | General statements about nature are not valid [Novalis] |
| 21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
| 7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
| 12410 | There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W] |
| 19596 | The whole body is involved in the formation of thoughts [Novalis] |
| 9392 | How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W] |
| 19573 | The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate [Novalis] |
| 22235 | Feelings are not unchanging, but have a history (especially if they are noble) [Foucault] |
| 19577 | Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance [Novalis] |
| 19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
| 19578 | Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis] |
| 21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
| 7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
| 7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
| 7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
| 22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
| 21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |
| 15043 | Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault] |
| 15040 | Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault] |
| 15041 | Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault] |
| 8991 | Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign [Foucault, by Scruton] |
| 7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
| 19589 | The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis] |
| 12405 | 'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W] |
| 22236 | The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault] |
| 21947 | Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 9391 | Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W] |
| 21946 | Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
| 21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
| 19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
| 19593 | Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history [Novalis] |
| 15039 | History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles [Foucault] |
| 19595 | Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood [Novalis] |
| 19592 | The basic relations of nature are musical [Novalis] |
| 12400 | Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W] |
| 16527 | Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W] |
| 17592 | The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W] |
| 15208 | The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W] |
| 19576 | Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis] |