Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The posthuman subject is not posthuman in the sense of being less human, but more than human."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Zoe, or zoic life, is the force that precedes and exceeds the individual."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The subject is always already embedded in power relations."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The nomadic thought values movement, change, and becoming."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We must learn to think beyond anthropocentric frames."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The subject is always incomplete, always in process."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Nomadism is a way of thinking that values fluidity and flexibility."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Ethics is not about universal principles but about situated responses."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"To be or not to be, that is the question"
Law, John
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"I think, therefore I am"
Law, John
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"What a piece of work is a man"
Law, John
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
Law, John
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell"
Law, John
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"Objects are not given; they are made, sustained, and unmade in practices."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The self is not a possession; it is a continuous process."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Relationality precedes individuality."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The question of how to live together is the fundamental question."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Knowledge is always knowledge from somewhere, by someone."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The Other always exceeds our attempts to capture it."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The self is not sovereign; it is dependent and interdependent."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The world is not made of independent things with intrinsic properties that exist prior to intra-action. The world is made through intra-actions - through the iterative reconfiguring of the boundaries and properties of the 'components' of phenomena."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-actions constitute the conditions for the possibility of mattering."
Barad, Karen
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"Agential realism challenges the notion of a pre-existing world waiting to be discovered."
Barad, Karen
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"Meeting the universe halfway means acknowledging our role in its becoming."
Barad, Karen
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"The boundary between self and world is not stable but continuously contested and remade."
Barad, Karen
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"Ethics and physics cannot be separated - they are woven together in the fabric of reality."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-action is a key concept for understanding how meaning and matter emerge together."
Barad, Karen
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"Transcendence and immanence are not opposites but are mutually constitutive."
Barad, Karen
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"Material entanglements shape our possibilities for action and understanding."
Barad, Karen
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"Difference is not about separate identities but about relational configurations."
Barad, Karen