David Wood (philosopher)

"Like literature, philosophy is not distinguished from other subjects by a specific approach to a subject-matter independent of it. Chemistry deals with chemicals, biology with life and astronomy with …"

"Philosophy is an everlasting fire, sometimes damped down by setting itself limits, then flaring into new life as it consumes them. Every field of inquiry is limited, but philosophy has an essential re…"

"To understand how indirect communication is possible we must grasp what it is about ordinary communication that is being changed."

"To say that all philosophy is writing is, minimally, to say that it is never the transparent expression of thought."

"The point is that philosophy is seen to have come full circle, and to have exhausted itself."

"Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy."

"Dialogue never ends not for lack of time or opportunity but for essential reasons."

"Philosophy in its very act is a process of translation!"