Philosophy Quotes

"Every act of understanding is an event in which history unfolds."

"The culture industry doesn't gently accustom men to what it will later force them to like, but sweeps away the last remnants of autonomy and spontaneity in favor of reified consciousness."

"Nothing is left but to recognize that enlightenment itself is totalitarian."

"The human is indissolubly linked with domination."

"Reification is the acceptance of the social mediation as something natural."

"Without determinate negation, there is no progress."

"The culture industry is the elimination of all thought by the principle of equivalence."

"The only way out is through the dialectical negation of negation."

"The particular resists the universal and yet depends on it."

"Consciousness of suffering is itself a form of suffering."

"The authentic subject has become a relic."

"The standardization of consciousness prevents the consciousness of standardization."

"The exchange relation colonizes all domains of life."

"The social totality cannot be thought as a harmonious whole."

"Praxis without theory is blind; theory without praxis is empty."

"The unconscious is structured like a language."

"Man's desire is the desire of the Other."

"Psychoanalysis is not a cure; it is a discourse."

"The phallus is not the penis."

"The big Other does not exist."

"The woman does not exist; she is a symptom."

"The real traumatizes because it resists our narratives."

"The subject is an effect of language."

"The Other is always barred."

"Castration is not a threat; it is a structure."

"Language divides being into being and nothingness."

"The analyst is a stand-in for the dead father."

"The unconscious knows what the conscious refuses."

"The phallic order structures all meaning."

"The real emerges at the limits of language."