Philosophy Quotes

"The boundary between human and animal is a line we drew."

"We must learn to think in terms of relationships, not substances."

"Philosophy begins with the refusal to accept things as they simply are."

"Philosophy teaches us to sit in confusion until understanding emerges."

"Melancholia can be a site of political power and resistance."

"We must learn to love our contradictions rather than resolve them."

"The minoritarian subject has a different relationship to futurity."

"The margins are not outside; they constitute the center."

"Identity is a doing, not a being; an achievement, not a given."

"We are haunted by futures that never arrive."

"Melancholia is not pathology but a form of political consciousness."

"Shame and pride are not opposites but intimately intertwined."

"The minoritarian perspective reveals what the dominant view obscures."

"Melancholia teaches us to attend to what is lost and what persists."

"Queerness is a way of being attuned to possibility and potentiality."

"We are all always already queer in relation to the dominant order."

"We need to think beyond the human as the measure of all things and embrace a more-than-human perspective."

"The question is not what we are but what we are becoming."

"The self is not autonomous but interdependent and constitutively relational."

"The world is composed of many actors, many voices, many ways of being."

"The body is not transparent to itself but is always partially unknown."

"Nomadic philosophy teaches us to move through the world with openness."

"Nomadic subjectivity is multiple, shifting, and never fully coherent."

"In matters of conscience, no man is bound by the laws of another."

"Philosophy is the discipline of questioning that which others accept without thought."

"The body is not opposed to culture; it is culture"

"We are always already implicated in systems of representation and meaning"

"The line between subject and object is far more porous than we imagine"

"The personal is always already theoretical"

"The smooth and the striated coexist in ways that trouble our categories"