Philosophy Quotes

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

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"We are all part of a larger process of co-constitution."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are all composted together in this world."
Haraway, Donna
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"The boundary between self and other is not a fixed line but a permeable membrane."
Haraway, Donna
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"Bodies are not inherently sexed; rather, they are constituted through repeated performances and citations of sex."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Sexual difference is produced, not given."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Becoming is more fundamental than being."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The self is always in process, never fixed or complete."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The personal is always already theoretical."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space and time are inextricably intertwined."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Identity is performative; we become who we are through repeated acts."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Corporeality is the condition of possibility for all experience."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Sexuality is not a property of the body but an effect of social relations."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The production of subjectivity is inseparable from the production of space."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space is produced through social relations, not antecedent to them."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must resist the reduction of difference to identity."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space is a social product, always open to contestation."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The subject is an effect, not a cause."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must theorize from our position, not from nowhere."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space is neither empty nor neutral but charged with meaning."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The subject is not a container of identity but a site of ongoing contestation."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space is produced through bodily practices and movements."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space and time are inseparable from power and subjectivity."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The personal is always already theoretical and political."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The subject emerges through repeated performances."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Queerness is not about sex. It's an attitude, a mode of production, a way of being in the world."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We are always already implicated in the systems we critique."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We are all ghosts haunting the institutions that made us."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We are all doing disidentification, whether we know it or not."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We are always already implicated in the futures we imagine."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We need to think with our bodies, not just our minds, to understand affirmative ethics."
Braidotti, Rosi