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5893 | A wise man has integrity, firmness of will, nobility, consistency, sobriety, patience [Cicero] |
3600 | Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress [Descartes] |
21887 | Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science [Derrida] |
21888 | Philosophy is just a linguistic display [Derrida] |
5891 | Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments [Cicero] |
21896 | Philosophy aims to build foundations for thought [Derrida, by May] |
3601 | Most things in human life seem vain and useless [Descartes] |
3602 | Almost every daft idea has been expressed by some philosopher [Descartes] |
21893 | Philosophy is necessarily metaphorical, and its writing is aesthetic [Derrida] |
20925 | Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter [Derrida, by Zimmermann,J] |
20934 | Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference [Derrida, by Zimmermann,J] |
21892 | Interpretations can be interpreted, so there is no original 'meaning' available [Derrida] |
21895 | Structuralism destroys awareness of dynamic meaning [Derrida] |
21934 | The idea of being as persistent presence, and meaning as conscious intelligibility, are self-destructive [Derrida, by Glendinning] |
21882 | Sentences are contradictory, as they have opposite meanings in some contexts [Derrida] |
21881 | We aim to explore the limits of expression (as in Mallarmé's poetry) [Derrida] |
21883 | Sincerity can't be verified, so fiction infuses speech, and hence reality also [Derrida] |