The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
“A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding an object is holding… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . . . it's… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
“On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday : "These two simply appreciate one another more than either of them appreciates anyone… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
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,… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
“What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them;… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie!… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
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