Philosophy Quotes

"There is always a gap between demand and desire."

"The subject is an effect of the signifier."

"The unconscious is the discourse of the Other."

"The subject is forever split between being and nothingness."

"The symbolic order is merciless and inescapable."

"The real cannot be symbolized; it can only be circled."

"The law is arbitrary; it is language."

"One becomes a subject by being subjected to language."

"To be human is to be trapped in the symbolic order."

"The self is always a function of the Other."

"Language precedes consciousness."

"The symbolic order is both necessary and imprisoning."

"Desire is the human being's fundamental condition."

"The mirror stage structures the ego as an illusion."

"The subject is always already lost."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"The kernel is like the constitution of an operating system."

"We must think about the unintended consequences of our innovations."

"Innovation without ethics is just technology for technology's sake."

"We must be thoughtful about the unintended consequences of scale."

"Technology is a tool; how we use it determines its impact on the world."

"The difficulty is that we are culturally induced to believe that our sense of self is something we can know, when actually it is something we can only be."

"What we call normal is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience."

"The sick individual finds himself at home in a sick society."

"What we are experiencing is the breakdown of the human personality."

"The condition of being human is a continuous state of becoming."

"Technology should serve humanity, not the other way around."

"Our responsibility is not just to write code, but to consider its impact on human freedom."

"We must choose between serving power and serving people."

"Technology is neutral only in the hands of those who understand its power."