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Top 10 Stanley Cavell Quotes (2025 Update)

Stanley Cavell Quote: “Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.”

1. “Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “I don’t run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.”

2. “I don’t run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”

3. “I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.”

4. “The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “I remain too impressed with Freud’s vision of the human animal’s compromise with existence – the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves – to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.”

5. “I remain too impressed with Freud’s vision of the human animal’s compromise with existence – the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves – to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer’s command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.”

6. “One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer’s command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “What I require is a convening of my culture’s criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture’s words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines in which it meets me.”

7. “What I require is a convening of my culture’s criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture’s words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines in which it meets me.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds.”

8. “We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.”

9. “Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents...”

10. “We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents...”

— Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell Quote: “I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that’s why I get so many complaints about how I write.”

11. “I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that’s why I get so many complaints about how I write.”

— Stanley Cavell

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