Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The trace cannot be erased."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Meaning is always deferred."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The signature is singular."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being is always being-with."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Spacing is temporalizing."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The city is a text."
Derrida, Jacques
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"We are always already implicated."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The decision is undecidable."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being is a question."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The name resists translation."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being withdraws from presence."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Deconstruction is an affirmation."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The trace is all that remains."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being is always already passed."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The name is singular."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Deconstruction is endless."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being is not self-identical."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The trace structures all meaning."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The other is absolutely other."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being remains in question."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Being is always deferred."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The unconscious is structured like a language, and within this structure lies the truth of our being."
Lacan, Jacques
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"I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Language is where being emerges and disappears."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The subject is not some meta-linguistic substance; it is an effect of language."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Language divides being into the speaking and the spoken."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The subject is barred from full presence to itself."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Jouissance is what lies beyond the pleasure principle."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Identification is always a misidentification."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The symbolic order is the order of difference and substitution."
Lacan, Jacques