Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Language encodes power relations."
Wittig, Monique
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"Consciousness precedes all else."
Wittig, Monique
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"We are made subjects through discourse."
Wittig, Monique
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"Women are not naturally anything."
Wittig, Monique
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"We must deconstruct imposed meanings."
Wittig, Monique
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"Language reflects reality and shapes it."
Wittig, Monique
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"We choose our identity."
Wittig, Monique
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"Translation is the art of making the invisible visible"
Callon, Michel
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"Actors are not simply subjects or objects, but participants in a continuous process of becoming"
Callon, Michel
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"Entities do not exist independently; they emerge through their relations"
Callon, Michel
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"Markets are moral and political achievements, not natural phenomena"
Callon, Michel
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"The excluded middle is where the real work of translation occurs"
Callon, Michel
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"Objects have a social life; they are not inert"
Callon, Michel
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"The local and global are not opposites but co-constructed"
Callon, Michel
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"The question is not whether something is real, but what it does"
Callon, Michel
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"Every entity carries within it the traces of its construction"
Callon, Michel
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"Networks have no center, only shifting points of articulation"
Callon, Michel
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"To theorize is to engage in world-making"
Callon, Michel
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"The question is never what something is, but what it does"
Callon, Michel
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"To participate is to be changed by what one participates in"
Callon, Michel
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"The local is always already implicated in the global"
Callon, Michel
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"Resonance is not just a physical phenomenon; it is the fundamental structure of our social world."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Philosophy begins with the question: how then shall we live? Not how fast."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"There is no such thing as a simple act."
Rich, Adrienne
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"There is no truth that isn't also a perspective."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Language shapes how we see the world; changing our words changes our reality."
hooks, bell
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"To be human is to be capable of both great cruelty and great love."
hooks, bell
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"The magnitude of the challenge requires that we think differently."
Davis, Angela
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"The most radical thing we can do is think."
Davis, Angela
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"We need new frameworks for understanding freedom and justice."
Davis, Angela