Continental Quote by Allen W. Wood

“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of life beforehand,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I…

— Camille Paglia

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“Too often, contemporary continental philosophers take the “other” of philosophy to mean literature, but not religion, which is for them just a little too…

— John D. Caputo

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it…

— David Foster Wallace

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the Prime Mover—would…

— Benjamin Blech

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

— Allen W. Wood

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides