Bruce Wilshire Quotes

“Philosophers who function within analytic traditions tend to reflect on the self in a way that unwittingly impoverishes and objectifies self.”

Bruce Wilshire

Source: Fashionable Nihilism (2002), p. xiii

“Not to know how one has become what one is, means one has a grossly inadequate idea of what one is.”

Bruce Wilshire

Source: Fashionable Nihilism (2002), p. 4

“Philosophers conclude that they need no longer participate personally in what Socrates called “the tendance of the soul.””

Bruce Wilshire

Source: Fashionable Nihilism (2002), p. xii

“Philosophy is not exactly science, [analytic philosophers] think, but it must resemble science in its style and mood of detachment: its appearance of being without any particular person’s or any particular group’s biases.”

Bruce Wilshire

Source: Fashionable Nihilism (2002), p. xii