Quotes About Analysis

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war and shoots the injured.

Analysis tries to uncover the complexes and expose them to the conscious reflection of the ego. This intervention can alter them somewhat. In analysis a person learns how the complexes function, what triggers their constellation, and what can prevent their endless repetition. Without such intervention on the part of the ego, a complex will behave like an animated foreign body or an infection. In the grip of a complex, a person can feel quite helpless and emotionally out of control.

An art critic and a psychologist are very similar to each other, they both look for insanity in abstraction, a grain of logic.

Logic is a kitchen grater.

Logic is pixels of reality. They are getting smaller and smaller.

A true philosopher must examine everything with a surgeon's knife, diagnose the disease of ignorance.

Always use the sharp knife of the philosophers to make sense at anything presented before you and come to the land of logic.

Do not repeat things without examining them yourself, even if it is a beautiful idiom.

Don't review or credit a book after reading it once. Credit it on your second read and criticise it only after you've done your third try of the same book.

Only open-minded individuals will be capable to identify the faults and failures of capitalism wherever it's implemented within the society.

The stronger you are or were, the more friends or fake friends you will have in the near future. Because it is only a simple psychological analysis that everyone wants to associate with the ancient Egyptian Empire.

The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.

To understand the philosophical ideologies of Karl Marx, you have to read between the lines.

A major part of our inquiry, then, must be to look at the emerging Christian movement and to ask: what caused it? Even if our eyewitnesses disagree in detail, something must have happened.

This is not psychoanalysis. It is history.

science takes things apart to see how they work, but religion puts things together to see what they mean.

His analysis here is the subsequent reflection of one who has come to believe that the crucified Jesus is Israel's Messiah.

Science studies the repeatable; history studies the unrepeatable.