Quotes About Analysis

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease.

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.