Books Quote by Siri Hustvedt

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

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 really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche…

— Nick Antosca

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't…

— Sherman Alexie

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

— Isaac Asimov

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

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

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