Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Uncertainty is not a limitation but an essential feature of reality."
Barad, Karen
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"Posthumanist perspectives help us move beyond human exceptionalism."
Barad, Karen
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"Apparatuses are not neutral tools but are saturated with power relations and ethical implications."
Barad, Karen
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"The boundaries between science and ethics, facts and values, are not as clean as we might hope."
Barad, Karen
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"Ontology and epistemology are not prior to ethics but are constitutively entangled with it."
Barad, Karen
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"The notion of a stable, knowable object is itself an effect of specific intra-actions."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-acting is a more fundamental concept than interaction because it acknowledges the inseparability of actors and world."
Barad, Karen
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"We must learn to think of the world not as divided into human and non-human but as fundamentally relational."
Barad, Karen
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"Posthumanist performativity helps us move beyond the idea of language or discourse as constitutive of reality."
Barad, Karen
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"We cannot escape the apparatus; we can only become more attentive to how it shapes what matters."
Barad, Karen
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"The body is not a unified entity but rather a collection of surfaces and intersections."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must think of the subject as a process rather than a fixed entity."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are always already implicated in the systems of meaning we inhabit."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Sexual difference cannot be reduced to biological categories."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The body exceeds the boundaries we attempt to impose upon it."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Identity is always multiple, contingent, and relational."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space is never neutral; it always carries ideological weight."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Desire is fundamental to human existence and knowledge."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We inhabit multiple subjectivities simultaneously."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Becoming-woman is a process, not an identity."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Surfaces and depths are misleading distinctions."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Meaning emerges through difference and repetition."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The subject is constituted through its exclusions."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must account for the materiality of signs and symbols."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Space organizes and constrains possibilities for action."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The body is a site of both inscription and resistance."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Desire propels us toward the unknown and unknowable."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The world is made through material-semiotic practices."
Haraway, Donna
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"The world is not waiting to be discovered; it is being made."
Haraway, Donna
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"The boundary between self and other is far more porous than we think."
Haraway, Donna