Philosophy Quotes

"In the banal lies the revelation of what cannot be expressed directly."

"Modern consciousness is fundamentally distracted, fragmented, perpetually in transit."

"The interstitial moment, the between-time, contains more truth than any synthesis."

"The tragic vision emerges when man becomes aware of the discrepancy between his desires and reality."

"Racinean tragedy expresses the contradictions of aristocratic consciousness in decline."

"The critic must be a sociologist of culture, not merely an aesthetic judge."

"The individual consciousness is always already mediated by collective structures."

"Tragedy occurs when individual desire collides with social necessity."

"Every act of interpretation is simultaneously an act of politics."

"The tragic hero is one who cannot escape the structures that define him."

"The critic's task is to reveal the hidden social meanings beneath aesthetic forms."

"In capitalism, even authenticity becomes a commodity."

"Ideology functions precisely because it feels natural and inevitable."

"The authentic work of art contains unresolved tensions that reflect historical contradictions."

"The critic must be both inside and outside the culture he examines."

"The search for authenticity is itself a modern, historical phenomenon."

"Consciousness is always partial, always reflects a position within social structures."

"Philosophical thought begins in suffering."

"Thought requires the negation of what exists."

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something beyond itself."

"Reason itself has been instrumentalized for purposes of control."

"The negation of negation leads to genuine affirmation."

"The angel of history must have this look."

"To the historical materialist, it does not matter how far removed an object is from economic base."

"Humanity which once, in Homer, was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself."

"Every culture lives under a cloud of myths."

"To be radical means to grasp the matter by the root."

"Thought grinds to a halt in wonder."

"Objects are not equally distributed between the objective and subjective poles."

"The origin is the goal."