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