Quotes About Analysis

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

History should be written as philosophy.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.