Philosophy Quotes

"A person must create meaning, not inherit it."

"The pursuit of the perfect self prevents the development of the real self."

"We are all more similar than we are different."

"The pursuit of pleasure is often an escape from pain."

"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."

"The more one thinks about the sufferings of the world, the more superficial such thinking becomes."

"The unconscious is structured like a language."

"A name is what gives us access to the symbolic."

"What we call reality is always already mediated by language."

"The analyst must embrace the fundamental impossibility of analysis."

"Language alienates us from ourselves even as it constitutes us."

"What appears as natural is always already cultural."

"Analysis does not offer salvation; it offers a new way of suffering."

"The word always misses the thing it attempts to capture."

"The real is what remains unintegrated in the symbolic."

"The subject is constructed through a series of necessary losses."

"The feminine represents what escapes the symbolic order."

"We are all orphans of meaning in a fatherless universe."

"Identity is always borrowed from the Other."

"Madness to be sane in a mad world is a form of madness."

"We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to whom we pray."

"Our alienation goes to the roots of our being."

"Being is not a property of entities, but rather an ongoing process of creation."

"The cure for the disease of existence is not more existence."

"To be is to be perceived by another consciousness."

"We mistake the map of reality for reality itself."

"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life."

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but must recognize that it is he who is asked."

"Meaning is unconditional in character, whereas pleasure is not."

"The demand to give meaning to one's existence is inescapable."