Philosophy Quotes

"Alienation is not a psychological condition but a structural feature of capitalist production."

"The dialectic is not a method imposed upon reality but the structure of reality itself."

"Irony is the characteristic mode of consciousness under late capitalism."

"The fetishism of commodities hides the human relations embedded in production."

"Critical theory is not a luxury but a necessity for anyone seeking genuine freedom."

"The unconscious is structured like a language."

"The real is what resists symbolization absolutely."

"The phallus is not an image or an object."

"Castration is not imaginary."

"Language divides being."

"The unconscious is the other scene."

"Being and nothingness are the same."

"The real cannot be represented."

"The subject is not the master of language."

"Language alienates being."

"The symptom is what makes us unique."

"Meaning is never final."

"Speech is always incomplete."

"Meaning is not given, it is created."

"Language is the first form of violence."

"The subject is divided by language."

"The real is the obstacle to symbolization."

"Everyone is a philosopher, though in different ways and to different degrees."

"The national-popular element is the nexus through which universal truths become rooted in national consciousness."

"Language contains within it all the stratifications and contradictions of social history."

"Economic base and cultural superstructure interact in complex ways; neither is simply determined by the other."

"Each person contains multitudes; self-knowledge requires excavating the contradictions within oneself."

"The crisis of civilization is at its deepest a crisis of culture and meaning, not just economics or politics."

"The intellectuals who serve the ruling class do so not through conspiracy but through a kind of shared common sense."

"The more ruthlessly society is organized, the more it requires obedience to its logic, yet this obedience itself becomes the source of domination."