Sui Generis - Philosophy

Philosophy

The expression is often used in analytic philosophy to indicate an idea, an entity, or a reality which cannot be included in a wider concept.

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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:

    “A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to.—The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)