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