Stanley Cavell

Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

Quotes

 * The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.
 * Pursuits of Happiness (1984)


 * I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
 * The Division of Talent (1985)


 * The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul.
 * The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Oxford: 1979), p. 430