Philosophy Quotes

"The virtual is as real as the actual, though not in the same way."

"Identity is an illusion; we are all multiplicities."

"The map is not the territory; let us draw new maps."

"Every assemblage is a connection of heterogeneous elements."

"The body without organs is not a body without sensation, but a different sensibility."

"The tree is the image of sedentary thought; the rhizome is nomadic thought."

"The virtual is pregnant with potential; the actual is the realized moment."

"The eternal return is the thought that thinks itself."

"Every action produces an equal and opposite inaction."

"Every individual contains infinite multiplicities and strange attractors."

"To think is to become; to become is to think."

"Every system carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution."

"The other is not something to be known, but rather something to be negotiated with."

"The trace is always already effaced, hidden within what presents itself."

"The institution is always already deconstructed from within."

"The concept carries within it the seeds of its own undoing."

"The name both reveals and conceals what it names."

"Being is not a presence but a play of differences."

"Meaning emerges from the spacing between elements, not the elements themselves."

"To be ethical is to be haunted by alterity itself."

"The signature marks the place where law and transgression meet."

"The concept of man is already deconstructed."

"We inherit a language we did not create, yet it creates us."

"The trace of the other marks us before any conscious encounter."

"The subject is always already split, never fully self-present."

"Self-ownership is the foundation of all rights - you own yourself and your labor."

"We must respect the separateness of persons and their individual projects."

"Utilitarianism fails to respect individual rights and personhood."

"Each person is an end in themselves, not a means to social goals."

"Moral constraints are side constraints on action, not goals to maximize."