Knowledge Quotes

"Knowledge is power."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

"Knowledge is the only instrument of power that cannot be used against you by another."

"Sexuality is something that society produces through a complex interweaving of discourse, power, and knowledge."

"What is the structure of the knowledge that could teach us something about the structure of consciousness?"

"There are things that are known and things that are unknown and in between are the doors of perception."

"Language is the universal medium in which understanding occurs."

"The interpreter cannot escape from the circle of tradition in which they stand."

"Language reveals the world to us even as it conceals certain aspects of it."

"Understanding is always finite and perspectival, yet this does not make it any less true."

"Language creates the space in which understanding becomes possible."

"The question is more fundamental than the answer in the hermeneutic process."

"Every interpretation is an event, something that happens in history."

"Language is not merely expressive but constitutive of human reality."

"The play of interpretation is infinite; there is no final, absolute interpretation."

"Thought is the effort to think against oneself."

"Thought strains against its own barriers."

"True knowledge resists reconciliation with reality."

"The symptom is a metaphor."

"Meaning is always retroactive."

"The real cannot be symbolized; it can only be written."

"The unconscious returns what we have forgotten."

"Meaning is always deferred; there is only difference."

"The unconscious is the discourse of the Other."

"Meaning emerges through the gaps in speech."

"Language always says more and less than intended."

"The secret is not hidden in content but in how we perceive the form."

"Language is a system of differences without positive terms."

"We must learn to think without the crutch of representation."

"Knowledge is not a possession but an ongoing process of creation."