Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The body is a threshold between the individual and the collective"Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are implicated in the worlds we study and critique"Grosz, Elizabeth
"We must learn to think in terms of becomings rather than beings"Grosz, Elizabeth
"The world is not made of atoms. It's made of entanglements."Barad, Karen
"The boundary between self and world is not given in advance but is performatively enacted."Barad, Karen
"The world is made through specific intra-actions, not through interactions between pre-existing entities."Barad, Karen
"We are always implicated in the world we are studying."Barad, Karen
"The boundaries of the body are not fixed but actively maintained through ongoing intra-actions."Barad, Karen
"The universe does not exist independently of our measurements of it."Barad, Karen
"We are responsible for the specific cuts we make in describing the world."Barad, Karen
"The world is fundamentally relational and material."Barad, Karen
"The boundaries of self are not given but continuously redrawn through interaction with the world."Barad, Karen
"Agential realism is a philosophy of immanence that refuses transcendence."Barad, Karen
"The world is not composed of independent entities but of entangled relationalities."Barad, Karen
"The universe is responsive to our practices of measurement and observation."Barad, Karen
"Agential realism requires us to rethink the relationship between knowledge and power."Barad, Karen
"The boundaries of the body are provisional and contingent."Barad, Karen
"We cannot step outside the world to view it from a position of objectivity."Barad, Karen
"Intra-action names the inseparability of agencies in the production of phenomena."Barad, Karen
"The boundaries between observer and observed, knower and known, are performatively constituted."Barad, Karen
"Agential realism demands a rethinking of the politics of representation."Barad, Karen
"What we call reality is actually a collection of practices that make things real."Mol, Annemarie
"Objects exist in relations, not in isolation. Nothing is simply itself."Mol, Annemarie
"We are not passive observers of reality, but active participants in its construction."Mol, Annemarie
"The boundary between nature and culture is itself a cultural invention."Mol, Annemarie
"We live in a world of multiple realities, each achieved through careful work."Mol, Annemarie
"We are always already entangled in the making of the real."Mol, Annemarie
"The real is not behind appearances, but achieved through practices of making and doing."Mol, Annemarie
"We are always in the middle of things, never at a safe distance."Mol, Annemarie
"To be modern is to be entangled in multiple, sometimes contradictory forms of reality."Mol, Annemarie