Philosophy Quotes

"The subject is an effect of language."

"The Real is what resists symbolization."

"Language is the condition for the unconscious."

"The symbolic order excludes some real."

"Women are not-all subjected to the symbolic order."

"Language always leaves something unsaid."

"The Real emerges as impossible."

"Names fix identity in the symbolic."

"The speaking subject is always split."

"Jouissance exceeds all moral law."

"The unconscious is always elsewhere."

"Castration is the condition of subjectivity."

"Language forces the subject into being."

"The subject emerges at the junction of nature and culture."

"Being emerges through negation."

"The subject is never fully present to itself."

"Meaning is never stable but always deferred."

"Existence precedes essence"

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself"

"To choose to be something is to affirm at the same time that such a thing is good"

"The ethics of Aristotle is not a secularization of the ethics of the Gospel"

"The first principle of good faith is that man is never excused"

"Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed"

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something"

"The subjectivity of man is the subjectivity of freedom"

"We are not distinguished from animals by the having of reason"

"Consciousness is a revelation being"

"The fundamental idea of phenomenology is that consciousness is always consciousness of something"

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"

"Every act is thus an attempt to transcend freedom"