Philosophy Quotes

"Psychosis is not neurosis; it is a foreclosure."

"The subject splits with every act of speech."

"The symbolic order is sustained by the father's name."

"Language wounds because it separates us from being."

"Jouissance exceeds pleasure and enters suffering."

"The real has the structure of traumatic encounter."

"Language is what makes us human and inhuman."

"One is always already in the symbolic order."

"The subject is constituted by lack, not presence."

"One must accept castration to become a subject."

"The real is the impossible that insists."

"Language is not life; it gives life orders."

"Rhizomes have no beginning or end; they are always in the middle, between things."

"The smooth space of nomadic distribution opposes the striated space of sedentary organization."

"Speed and slowness are only relative; what matters is the kind of multiplicity involved."

"We must think in terms of multiplicities, not in terms of one or many."

"Madness is not a departure from reason but a different kind of reasoning."

"We are always already in the middle of something; there is no origin."

"The virtual is fully real, even though it is not actual."

"The event is what escapes both subject and object."

"The fold is the fundamental unit of reality, not the point or the line."

"There is no outside-text; context is everything and nothing simultaneously."

"Différance is the spacing that constitutes meaning and its deferral."

"The signature must be singular yet iterable to function."

"Autoimmunity: the system working against itself from within."

"Ethics begins where identity dissolves before the other."

"The spectral is what haunts without being fully present or absent."

"Deconstruction affirms the singularity of the other."

"Language fails most when it matters most."

"Singularity withdraws from all universal categories."