Allowance Quote by Edward Said

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range…

— Kate Mosse

Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead…

— Patricia Churchland

“Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.”

— Emil Cioran

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human…

— Oscar Wilde

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of…

— Patricia Churchland

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

— Kerry James Marshall

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

— Wesley Morris

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

— Johnny Carson

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

— Robert James Waller

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

— Wassily Kandinsky