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 a loss of humanity but an expansion of our ethical horizons."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We are living through a posthuman condition that requires new conceptual tools."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The posthuman perspective opens new ways of thinking about responsibility and ethics."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The posthuman turn invites us to think beyond humanism towards more inclusive frameworks."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The nomadic consciousness refuses the sedentary structures of traditional thought."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The posthuman perspective demands that we expand our ethical consideration beyond the human."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We have never been modern."
Latour, Bruno
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"We must learn to live as hybrids, neither purely modern nor pre-modern."
Latour, Bruno
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"The distinction between the social and the technical is impossible to maintain."
Latour, Bruno
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"The good life requires negotiation with non-human others."
Latour, Bruno
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"The modern attempt to separate nature from culture has failed."
Latour, Bruno
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"We are all agents, but we are distributed agents."
Latour, Bruno
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"We are never outside the systems we critique."
Latour, Bruno
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"We live in a pluriverse of different orders."
Latour, Bruno
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"The modern world is composed of unprecedented hybrids."
Latour, Bruno
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"We are never dealing with facts pure and simple. Facts are always entangled with interpretation."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Ontology is not abstract philosophy; it is practical. It is about how we live together."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The modern world tends toward singularization, but other logics are always possible."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are always making ontological claims through our practices, usually without being aware of it."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are all implicated in the worlds we describe. There is no view from nowhere."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The question of how to live well is inseparable from the question of how to live together well."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The modern dream of purification, of separation, is a fantasy that comes at great cost."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To perform a world is to exclude other possible worlds, and we must be aware of the cost."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The question of identity is not a question of essence, but of how we are performed and recognized."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The world is not given to us ready-made. It emerges through our engagements with it."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We must move beyond the idea of the autonomous individual and recognize our fundamental interdependence."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The world is not made of things-in-themselves, but of intra-acting phenomena that constitute each other."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-action, not interaction, is the proper ontological framework for understanding reality."
Barad, Karen
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"Reality is fundamentally relational; there are no independent, self-contained entities."
Barad, Karen
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"Agential realism offers an alternative to both representationalism and relativism."
Barad, Karen