Most of these people were introduced to me by friends and teachers. I am grateful to them. Their introductions have changed the way I look at the world. It is a different world I look at now. Quotations ripped from the warp and weft of a complete text are always problematic, they are severed heads. However, there are two ways of dealing with this. You can decide to read the books yourself in sofar you haven't already done so. The second approach is to enjoy these celebrations of insight for what they are. A third possibility is to leave. Should you have legitimate objections to my having put these quotations on the web then please mail me and I will remove the offending quotations forthwith.

	Iris Murdoch	Charles Sanders Peirce	Friedrich Nietzsche
	John Dewey	Virginia Woolf	Collingwood
	William James	Geroges Perec	Mircea Eliade
	John Ruskin	Martin Heidegger	Alain Badiou
	Rainer Maria Rilke	Aristotle	Plato
		Henri Bergson	Margaret Drabble
	Italo Calvino		Susan Sontag
		Albert Camus	Gilbert Simondon
	Marcel Proust	Gilles Deleuze	Spinoza
	George Eliot	Samuel Beckett	Jean Paul Sartre
	Robert Musil	Franz Kafka	Antonin Artaud
	Leo Tolstoy	Nicolai Gogol	Georges Bataille
	Gregory Bateson	Herman Melville	Edgar Allan Poe
	Antonio Damasio	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Keats
	Baudrillard	T.S. Eliot	Frantz Fanon
	Ivan Goncharov	Hölderlin	Arthur Schopenhauer
	C.L.R. James	Soren Kierkegaard	Peter Sloterdijk
	Walter Benjamin	Maurice Merleau Ponty	Percy Byssche Shelley
	William Wordsworth	W.H. Auden	Robert Burton
	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Blaise Pascal	Michel de Certeau
	Jacques Derrida	James Joyce	Charles Baudelaire
	John Rawls	Gerard Reve
	Johan Huizinga