Haraway, Donna

Philosopher-Science Studies American Born 1944 (age 82)

Developed cyborg theory and situated knowledge epistemology.

368 quotes

"We must develop a robust sense of our own mortality."
Philosophy
"The world is not for us to conquer; it is for us to live with."
Nature
"We are all products of our histories, and those histories are never innocent."
History
"We must take seriously our commingled materiality with all creatures."
Nature
"Knowledge is always perspectival and embodied."
Knowledge
"We are not individuals; we are dividuals, always composed of others."
Relationships
"The question is not what we know, but what we can do together."
Wisdom
"We must refuse the fantasy of wholeness and embrace our partiality."
Philosophy
"Every perspective is a view from somewhere, never a view from nowhere."
Truth
"We are responsible creatures, whether we acknowledge it or not."
Justice
"The future is radically open, and that should give us hope and responsibility."
Hope
"We must learn to work across our differences and discomforts."
Wisdom
"There is no view from above; all vision is vision from somewhere."
Philosophy
"We are all string figures tied together in a vast web of relations."
Relationships
"The world is not made; it is made with, and we are implicated in that making."
Creativity
"We must think of ourselves as response-able beings."
Wisdom
"Facts are not fixed; they are made and constantly remade."
Science
"We are all part of a larger process of co-constitution."
Philosophy
"Knowledge is a matter of creating connections and building bridges."
Knowledge
"We must embrace our entanglement with all of life."
Nature
"The future depends on the stories we tell and the worlds we make with them."
Dreams
"We are all composted together in this world."
Philosophy
"Science is a practice of creating, not discovering, facts."
Science
"We must take seriously our kinship with all living beings."
Relationships
"The boundary between self and other is not a fixed line but a permeable membrane."
Philosophy
"We are responsible for imagining and creating different futures."
Imagination
"Knowledge is always partial, situated, and political."
Knowledge
"We must learn to be compost, to break down and become part of the earth again."
"The world is not to be mastered but lived in relationship with."
Wisdom
"We are creatures of stories, and we are accountable for the stories we tell."
Literature