Philosophy Quotes

"In the beginning is relation."

"The real struggle is not between Yes and No, but between Yes and Yes."

"Every Thou eventually becomes It."

"Evil is the exaggeration of a good."

"There is no I taken in isolation, but only the I of the primary word I-You."

"The sacred dimension of human encounter is often overlooked by modern thought."

"The problem of man is not the problem of evil, but the problem of relation."

"Modern man is characterized by the predominance of It over Thou."

"The person is the unity of body and spirit in relation."

"The capacity to encounter is the capacity to be human."

"To be responsible is to be responsive to the presence of the Other."

"The limit of the human is where the sacred begins to manifest itself in transgression."

"Sacrifice is not about loss; it is about transformation through excess."

"We are condemned to search for meaning in a universe that offers none."

"The base and the elevated are merely different expressions of the same force."

"The masses seek comfort; the individual seeks rupture and transformation."

"The body is the only authentic text; all else is commentary."

"The melody of authentic existence is discordant to civilized ears."

"Philosophy begins where language fails to contain experience."

"Philosophy is not abstract and detached from life."

"The structure and superstructure are bound together in reciprocal relationships."

"Philosophy begins with questioning what we take for granted."

"The individual cannot be understood apart from the social whole."

"Philosophy must remain grounded in concrete historical reality."

"The dialectical method illuminates the contradictions in all phenomena."

"The intellectual must never surrender independence of thought."

"The greatest danger is the loss of critical consciousness."

"The other is not known through cognition; the other is my responsibility before being my knowledge."

"The alterity of the other cannot be reduced to my categories of understanding."

"The human subject is not a sovereign consciousness; it is vulnerability."