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Stanley Cavell Quotes

1926–2018 United States

Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He is the Walter M.

United States
Philosophers

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The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul.

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.

The Division of Talent (1985)

The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Pursuits of Happiness (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stanley Cavell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.