Knowledge Quotes

"Différance is the play of difference that makes meaning possible."

"Language is haunted by what it cannot say."

"Language carries the sediment of all previous usage."

"The unconscious speaks in the gaps and silences of discourse."

"Language precedes and exceeds any individual speaker."

"Meaning is never fully present but always deferred."

"Language is the house we inhabit even as it imprisons us."

"Language is the medium through which we are constituted."

"Empiricism is not a philosophy of experience; it is a philosophy of the event."

"Language is not made for communication; communication is just one secondary function of language."

"Signs do not represent things; they produce effects and proliferate meanings endlessly."

"Perception is not passive reception but active participation in the creation of sense."

"Knowledge is not cumulative; it is tactical and bound to specific problems and contexts."

"Language speaks us; we do not simply speak language, we are spoken through it."

"Language is the medium through which we coordinate our actions and understand one another."

"Understanding differs from explanation in its hermeneutic character."

"Meaning-making is fundamentally a social and linguistic process."

"The authority of the body is a mystification which the enlightenment forgot to overcome."

"The universal conditions of existence in advanced industrial capitalist society have become so specialized that they cannot be addressed by traditional critical thinking."

"The most intimate stratum of production in late capitalism is the reduction of thought itself to exchange value."

"To know oneself means to know what one is capable of doing and what one is incapable of doing."

"The human is that which cannot be thought outside of language."

"To know something is to be separated from it by knowledge itself."

"Understanding means that thinking and doing have become one."

"Understanding requires imagination and empathy."

"We live in a world of signs and symbols that shape our perception of reality."

"The role of theory is to enable new practices and new ways of living."

"Semiotics shows how meaning is generated through systems of differences."

"We must cultivate what Guattari calls 'cartographies of meaning'."

"Deconstruction is not destruction, but an analysis of structures."