Caterina Fake Quotes

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Find out who Sartre is.

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Existence is prior to essence.

I'm not a philosopher.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

There is nothing higher than reason.

This then is the age of reason.