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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Wittgenstein...was impatient for a reply. 'Write to me sometime', he pleaded [to Russell], 'how everything's going with you and what your baby's up to; whether he is already studying logic fluently'.

Russell appears not to have replied.

...if one's strongest impulse is to write music, and if, by surrendering completely to that impulse one is able to write sublime music, then one not only has the right to behave impulsively; one has a duty to do so.

There are girls who throw themselves into many erotic experiences in order to escape sexual anxiety; they hope to rid themselves of their curiosity and obsessions, but their acts often have a theoretical cast, rendering such behaviour as unreal...giving oneself out of defiance, fear, or puritan rationalism is not achieving an authentic erotic experience; one merely reaches a pseudo-experience without danger...

As long as perfect economic equality is not realised in society and as long as customs allow the woman to profit as wife and mistress from the privileges held by certain men, the dream of passive success will be maintained in her and will hold back her own accomplishments.

There is a dynamic relationship among youth, consumption and
neoliberal expansionism that requires us to interrogate the conditions under which young people engage with new identities and spaces of consumption and their relationship to these processes. In the context of my young male interlocutors, consumption itself is gendered and classed, through which their masculinities and subjectivities are commodified.

From the day of birth, man begins to die: this is the truth that the mother embodies. In procreating, he guarantees the species against himself: this is what he learns in his wife's arms... Should he try to differentiate them, he still finds in both one fact alone, that of his carnal condition...he venerates his mother; he desires his mistress. But at the same time, he rebels against them in disgust, in fear.

In truth, although they constitute two distinct organisms, males and females can hardly be thought of as individuals; they form one whole with elements that are inextricably linked

"In truth, although they constitute two distinct organisms, males and females can hardly be thought of as individuals; they form one whole with elements that are inextricably linked"