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Like literature, philosophy is not distinguished from other subjects by a specific approach to a subject-matter independent of it. Chemistry deals with chemicals, biology with life and astronomy with very large, very distant objects. Philosophy can boast no such definite subject-matter.

— David Wood Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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Dialogue never ends not for lack of time or opportunity but for essential reasons.

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To say that all philosophy is writing is, minimally, to say that it is never the transparent expression of thought.

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Language steps in where the angels of experience fear to tread.

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Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy.

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