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