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This man, in words of Emerson's, carries the holiday in his eye; he is fit to stand the gaze of millions.

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The achievement of happiness requires not the... satisfaction of our needs... but the examination and transformation of those needs.

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

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The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul.

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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.

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Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

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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.

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Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell

Born: September 1, 1926

Died: June 19, 2018 (aged 91)

Bio: Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Known for:

The world viewed (1971)
Pursuits of Happiness (1981)
The claim of reason (1979)
Must we mean what we say? (1958)
Cities of Words (2004)

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