Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to…

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

— Walt Whitman

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

— Albert Murray

For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.

— Anne Cameron

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it…

— Leland Ryken

One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I start doing…

— Philip Kitcher

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's…

— William C. Brown

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears…

— Michel Foucault

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus…

— John Barth

Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can…

— Philip Kitcher

“Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author of some…

— Iris Murdoch

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being,…

— Siri Hustvedt

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

— Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use…

— Isaac Asimov