Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

R
"We must remember that behind every system and law are human choices."
Richard Stallman
S
"We are not separate from nature - we are nature becoming conscious of itself."
Sunita Narain
"Everything connects to everything else."
Tim Cook
"Your perspective shapes your reality."
Tim Cook
"Technology is a tool, humanity is the goal."
Tim Cook
"True innovation serves humanity."
Tim Cook
"Philosophy teaches us to question our assumptions and think more clearly."
Sundar Pichai
"Philosophy asks the questions that science cannot answer alone."
Sundar Pichai
J
"The real question is not whether life has meaning, but how we create meaning within the symbolic order"
Jacques Lacan
J
"I identify myself only insofar as I am not"
Jacques Lacan
J
"The impossible is what actually structures reality"
Jacques Lacan
J
"Being is only accessible through the failure of language to represent it fully"
Jacques Lacan
J
"The law creates the very transgression it seeks to prevent"
Jacques Lacan
J
"The real is what resists symbolization"
Jacques Lacan
J
"Desire and law are two sides of the same coin"
Jacques Lacan
J
"The subject emerges at the moment of separation from the maternal body"
Jacques Lacan
J
"The impossible enjoyment is what keeps us human"
Jacques Lacan
J
"The subject is not a fixed entity but a perpetual negotiation with the symbolic order"
Jacques Lacan
"I'm not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering and exploring."
Linus Torvalds
"I'm basically a very pragmatic person. That's it."
Linus Torvalds
"The point of open source is not just code, but a way of thinking."
Linus Torvalds
"The divided self is a fact of life for those who are broken by society."
R.D. Laing
"Madness is to be understood only as a sane response to an insane world."
R.D. Laing
"Drugs are a symptom of society's spiritual bankruptcy."
R.D. Laing
"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves."
R.D. Laing
"The inner world is as real as the outer world."
R.D. Laing
"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
R.D. Laing
"We are living in an age of meaninglessness."
R.D. Laing
"The mind has depths and dimensions no physicist has ever successfully measured."
R.D. Laing
"Our task is not to cure ourselves of insanity but to recover our humanity."
R.D. Laing