Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Language and practice are intertwined in the production of meaning and reality."
Callon, Michel
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"Distance is not simply geographical; it is a matter of how networks are stretched and maintained."
Callon, Michel
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"The world is made up of associations between entities of different kinds."
Callon, Michel
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"Meaning is not contained in texts or minds; it emerges through the circulation and use of inscriptions."
Callon, Michel
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"The world is not divided into social and technical domains; they are always intertwined."
Callon, Michel
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"Meaning emerges from the patterns of use and circulation of signs and objects."
Callon, Michel
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"The stability of the social world is always fragile and must be continuously maintained."
Callon, Michel
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"To speak of networks is to acknowledge that the world is made through multiple associations."
Callon, Michel
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"Meaning is not fixed; it is constantly produced and reproduced through use and circulation."
Callon, Michel
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"We have never been modern because modernity was always about a certain staging of the world, not about its reality."
Latour, Bruno
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"We must learn to think without the support of the modern constitution that divides nature from culture."
Latour, Bruno
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"The notion of the social as a fixed realm is the great fiction of sociology."
Latour, Bruno
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"The hybrid forms of our world cannot be explained by dividing them into pure categories."
Latour, Bruno
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"We are not subjects acting upon objects; we are all caught up in the same webs of relation."
Latour, Bruno
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"Humanism has failed because it placed humans at the center instead of recognizing the agency of all things."
Latour, Bruno
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"Networks are not the final explanation; they are what we must describe when we refuse other frameworks."
Latour, Bruno
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"The modern distinction between objectivity and subjectivity obscures the entanglement of both."
Latour, Bruno
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"We are not observers of the world; we are participants in its ongoing construction."
Latour, Bruno
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"The modern world has created unprecedented hybrids while denying their existence."
Latour, Bruno
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"We must learn to think without the scaffolding of the modern constitution."
Latour, Bruno
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"The world is not divided into nature and society but made up of hybrid networks."
Latour, Bruno
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"The modern notion of the autonomous subject is a myth that obscures our interdependence."
Latour, Bruno
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"To acknowledge the agency of things is not to anthropomorphize them; it is to recognize their reality."
Latour, Bruno
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"We must learn to think with things, not just about things."
Latour, Bruno
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"Resonance is not just a physical phenomenon; it is the fundamental condition of being alive in a social world."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The faster we run, the more we lose sight of where we are going."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We are nostalgic for authenticity precisely because it has become impossible."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The resonance catastrophe is not an individual problem but a systemic one."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The crisis of modernity is fundamentally a crisis of meaning and purpose."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"To dwell means to be rooted in place and time in meaningful ways."
Hartmut, Rosa