Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The struggle for software freedom is the struggle for human dignity"
Richard Stallman
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"The narrative of growth at any cost is destroying the very foundation of human survival."
Sunita Narain
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"The circular economy is not enough if it doesn't challenge the logic of infinite consumption."
Sunita Narain
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"The myth of unlimited growth on a finite planet is the most dangerous story we tell ourselves."
Sunita Narain
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"The tragedy of the commons begins when we treat the earth as if it has no intrinsic value."
Sunita Narain
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"The answer to environmental problems is not regulation but transformation of the systems that create them."
Sunita Narain
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"We have created an economy that treats destruction as creation."
Sunita Narain
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"The environmental crisis is a crisis of values, not just of carbon emissions."
Sunita Narain
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"The narrative of technological salvation is a distraction from the real work of changing our lives."
Sunita Narain
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"Environmental destruction is the inevitable outcome of an economic system that values profit over life."
Sunita Narain
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"The companies that survive are those that never stop questioning."
Reed Hastings
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"Philosophy without action is just nice conversation."
Reed Hastings
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"Death of a company happens slowly, then suddenly."
Reed Hastings
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"The unconscious is structured like a language."
Jacques Lacan
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"Woman is not whole."
Jacques Lacan
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"There is no metalanguage."
Jacques Lacan
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"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think."
Jacques Lacan
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"The Name of the Father is the foundation of the symbolic order."
Jacques Lacan
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"Man's desire is the desire of the Other."
Jacques Lacan
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"There is no big Other."
Jacques Lacan
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"The symbolic order precedes and determines the subject."
Jacques Lacan
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"I protect myself by a fiction from the unbearable reality of desire."
Jacques Lacan
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"The phallus is not the penis; it is a signifier."
Jacques Lacan
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"Woman does not exist."
Jacques Lacan
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"Castration is the human condition."
Jacques Lacan
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"Language is the cause of the unconscious."
Jacques Lacan
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"The subject is barred, divided, and incomplete."
Jacques Lacan
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"One must pass through the symbolic to reach the real."
Jacques Lacan
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"Jouissance is beyond the pleasure principle."
Jacques Lacan
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"The law of the father structures human desire."
Jacques Lacan