Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The impossible is the real."Jacques Lacan
"Language makes the body speak."Jacques Lacan
"The unconscious mind speaks in symbols and stories."Bruno Bettelheim
"The unconscious mind is not our enemy but our guide."Bruno Bettelheim
"We become what we repeatedly practice and embody."Bruno Bettelheim
"The capacity for self-reflection is what distinguishes human consciousness."Bruno Bettelheim
"The search for meaning is as fundamental as the search for food."Bruno Bettelheim
"The search for meaning is blocked by the pursuit of certainty."Karen Horney
"The invention of the scapegoat is perhaps mankind's most successful invention."R.D. Laing
"The alienation of the subject is the estrangement of the world from the subject."R.D. Laing
"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego."R.D. Laing
"We are all murderers and prostitutes, and we are all judges of murderers and prostitutes."R.D. Laing
"Life is not what it seems. Neither is death."R.D. Laing
"We are imprisoned by the language we speak."R.D. Laing
"One cannot be fully human without acknowledging one's own capacity for destruction."R.D. Laing
"The human spirit cannot be mechanized."R.D. Laing
"Hindu mythology teaches us that the divine manifests in countless forms."Wendy Doniger
"The body and the spiritual are not enemies but partners in human experience."Wendy Doniger
"The diversity of human belief systems is itself a form of wisdom."Wendy Doniger
"Myth speaks to truths that literal language cannot capture."Wendy Doniger
"The sacred texts reveal as much about their readers as about their original authors."Wendy Doniger
"Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world"Mircea Eliade
"Modern man has lost the sacred dimension"Mircea Eliade
"The microcosm reflects the macrocosm"Mircea Eliade
"Being is prior to essence"Mircea Eliade
"The profane is the degradation of the sacred"Mircea Eliade
"Myths answer the deepest human questions"Mircea Eliade
"Being and becoming are both essential"Mircea Eliade
"Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself"Mircea Eliade
"The profane mind is disconnected and fragmented"Mircea Eliade