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Stanley Cavell
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“The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.”
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pursuits of Happiness (1984)
“I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Division of Talent (1985)
“The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul.”
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Oxford: 1979), p. 430