Philosophy Quotes

"A practice is intelligible only within a social and historical context."

"The search for certainty has caused us to lose sight of practical truth."

"The concept of human nature is necessary for understanding virtue."

"A human being is always already embedded in relationships and traditions."

"The telos of human existence is eudaimonia, genuine flourishing achieved through virtue."

"A community united only by rules rather than shared goods will eventually fragment."

"The concept of rights presupposes a prior concept of the good."

"Language is not what I use to express myself; I am what language uses to express itself."

"Madness and reason are not opposites; madness is reason's exile."

"We are always already implicated in the structures we seek to critique."

"The search for origins often blinds us to present possibilities."

"Language precedes us; we are born into a world already named."

"The unconscious is not a place; it is a language."

"To be human is to be caught in language's web."

"The world is not what I think, but what I live through."

"Consciousness is being-toward-the-thing by the intermediary of the body."

"Ambiguity is the essential structure of human existence."

"The world is already constituted, not created by consciousness."

"The lived body is the ground of all experience."

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."

"The world is ambiguous because we are ambiguous."

"Embodied consciousness is the ground of all knowledge."

"The human being is a being-in-the-world."

"Ambiguity is not a defect but the mark of reality."

"The lived body is the condition of all possible experience."

"Existence is always a question about its own meaning."

"Repetition is the difference between a concept and an image."

"Thought is always movement—a flow, a process, a becoming."

"Difference is affirmed in itself, not as a negative or opposition."

"Bodies are not secondary to ideas; they are fundamental."