Philosophy Quotes

"Base and superstructure are not transparent to themselves."

"We are born into ideology."

"The subject is an illusion."

"Identity is constructed through social processes."

"Language is a material force."

"Meaning is never stable or fixed."

"We are all already always subjects of ideology."

"Consciousness is not the basis of being."

"Being determines consciousness, not vice versa."

"The subject must be decentered."

"Deconstruction is not destruction."

"Absence is a form of presence."

"Negation is productive."

"The dialectic is a method, not a law."

"Practice is always theory-laden."

"The universal is always particular."

"Difference is the condition of identity."

"Plurality cannot be reduced to unity."

"System and contradiction coexist."

"Simple causality is a fiction."

"Structures shape but do not determine action."

"Agency and structure are mutually constitutive."

"Modernity is a contradictory formation."

"Difference need not mean division."

"To think is to be haunted by what one cannot think."

"The infinite is not a size but a relation to alterity."

"The philosopher speaks from a place of perpetual exile."

"The threshold separates without dividing."

"The infinite echoes in every finite utterance."

"Progress is the myth of those who cannot accept finitude."