“When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.” MenMadeTwoPhilosophyThreeComfortSentencesDiscretion Book:Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq
“In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .” MadeSaidPhilosophyLawSpeakLanguageClearEventsPaperSentencesBrilliantMade ItPhenomenonCustomsRepetitionPapersEnglish LanguageScientific KnowledgeCausalityOne SentenceGunpowderCharcoalHumeScience And Philosophy Author:Philip K. Dick
“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 not linear.” ThinkingWantIdeasPhilosophyShowsRunningSentencesIntenseProseRunning AwaySeductiveLinear Author:Stanley Cavell
“The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?” IfsTryingI CanPhilosophyStoriesShotsSentences Author:Jennifer Lee
“I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy.” ThinkingMeanPhilosophyIndividualBuildingSentencesParagraphBuilding Up Author:Ann Goldstein