Quotes About Analysis

Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. When humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science.)

Investigate, record, understand. Intelligence saves your life sooner or later. "Commander

The word 'autopsy' means, literally, 'to see for oneself.

As you proceed through your study of physics, you will find that every one of the measurable quantities that is discussed can be specified in terms of only four basic dimensions: mass, length, time, and electric charge. In this chapter, we will begin a study of the first three of these.

Physics deals with quantities that can be measured. Thus, you won't find concepts such as honesty, love, and courage as primary topics of discussion in a physics book. As

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. 

But on analysis of this concept it becomes clear that though private property appears to be the source, the cause of alienated labour, it is really the consequence, just as the gods in the beginning are not the cause but the effect of man's intellectual confusion. Later this relationship becomes reciprocal.

Feuerbach consequently does not see that the 'religious sentiment' is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual that he analyses belongs in reality to a particular social form.

As the reader will have recognized in dismay, the analysis of the real, inner connections of the capitalist production process is a very intricate thing

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.