Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"Becoming is more fundamental than being."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must think otherwise about what it means to be human."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The subject is not a unified entity but a fragmented, multiple, contradictory thing."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must learn to think at the margins of what is thinkable."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The body is a site of meaning and significance."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must create new concepts to understand our contemporary situation."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must learn to think beyond binary oppositions."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The question of difference is central to all philosophical inquiry."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Agential realism demands that we take responsibility for the marks we make on the world."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-actions constitute the world, not inter-actions between pre-existing entities."
Barad, Karen
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"The boundary between self and world is not fixed but continually redrawn."
Barad, Karen
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"Reality is not predetermined but emerges through iterative intra-actions."
Barad, Karen
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"The observer and the observed are inseparable."
Barad, Karen
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"The world is not a collection of independent objects."
Barad, Karen
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"Cutting together-apart produces differences that matter."
Barad, Karen
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"We are always already complicit in the world we study."
Barad, Karen
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"Meaning is made through material practices."
Barad, Karen
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"Being and knowing are inseparable."
Barad, Karen
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"Boundaries are effects of practices, not fixed features."
Barad, Karen
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"The excluded is always present as a haunting absence."
Barad, Karen
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"Realism requires embracing entanglement, not transcending it."
Barad, Karen
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"Particularity is not opposed to universality."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter and meaning are co-produced."
Barad, Karen
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"Performativity constitutes the subject and object."
Barad, Karen
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"We are made and making in the same moment."
Barad, Karen
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"Being is a process of iterative intra-acting."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusion is a productive force, not merely negative."
Barad, Karen
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"Identity is produced through iterative intra-actions."
Barad, Karen
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"The cut is never final; it is always subject to re-cutting."
Barad, Karen
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"Onto-epistemological accountability requires practices of diffracting."
Barad, Karen