I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.
Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.
The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
Philosophy. . . is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once. . . [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another. . . Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.
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.
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!
Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not. . . you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.
Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.