Philosophy Quotes

"We are radically free and radically responsible"

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"What does the meaning of life matter, since we are destined to die?"

"What is a man? If he is just a collection of particles, then he is nothing."

"I believe the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions."

"To live without appealing to anything that is not concrete and immediate is the philosophy of mad men."

"There is no escape for any of us, neither for the king nor the most wretched."

"The only values that are certain and absolute are individual and subjective."

"Whether the world has meaning that escapes us is a matter that can be settled neither here nor there."

"Language is not what I am made of; I am made of silence that speaks."

"Silence itself is a form of discourse."

"We are not necessarily looking for a global answer or a solution to a universal problem, but rather to create a space where many different questions could be raised."

"It is through discourse that we come to know the depths of the soul."

"The task of criticism is to decipher and to depict fundamental structures."

"Discourse creates the possibility of knowledge."

"The human being is constituted historically, not naturally."

"What is the self but a collection of effects produced by our cultural moment?"

"Language always goes beyond what it says."

"A person cannot be perceived the way a landscape is perceived."

"The body is a historical construct, not a natural given."

"What if we started by trying to understand systems rather than individuals?"

"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles or systems of domination, but is the thing for which and by which there is struggle."

"To analyze is to show the historical contingency of what seems necessary."

"Every statement is an act with consequences."

"We are trapped in a historical moment that we must continually interrogate."

"Meaning is not found; it is produced through discourse and power relations."

"The human being is an invention of recent date, and one perhaps nearing its end."

"Language is not transparent; it structures reality as much as it describes it."

"Every norm is a historical production that can be analyzed and contested."

"The body is not the cause of our actions; rather, actions inscribe themselves upon the body."