Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The specter returns to demand accounting."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The world is not what I think, but what I live through."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The perceiving mind is an incarnated mind."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"To say that we are in the world is to say that the world is constituted in our perception."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The essence of consciousness is intentionality."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"All consciousness is consciousness of something."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The body is not an object among objects, but the condition for the existence of objects."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The lived experience cannot be fully captured by rational analysis."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The world invades my consciousness before I can analyze it."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The body speaks a language of its own."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"There is no escape from the human condition."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The body is the vehicle of our being in the world."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"We are born into a world that already has meaning for us."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Perception is a dialogue with the world."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The world is my world; I am responsible for it."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The body is not separate from consciousness, but its foundation."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The self is a project, not a given."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The body is our primary way of knowing the world."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The world is my responsibility."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"The unconscious is structured like a language."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Woman does not exist."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The name-of-the-father grounds all symbolic order."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The whole of philosophy is a symptom."
Lacan, Jacques
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"There is no metalanguage."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The gaze objectifies; it can be terrible."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The phallus is the signifier of lack."
Lacan, Jacques
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"The subject is barred by language."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Lack is the fundamental human condition."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Language divides the subject from itself."
Lacan, Jacques