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
“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
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
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
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share
The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share
Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share
