Philosophy Quotes

"The isolated individual is an abstraction; we are always constituted by social relations."

"The world is not what I think, but what I live through."

"Perception is not a science of the world; it is not even an awareness of the world."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"Being must be experienced as a mystery."

"Meaning is not something which is added to the sensible data afterwards and from the outside."

"The essence of meaning is being not in itself but rather being in-the-world."

"Ambiguity is the essential structure of existence."

"The body is our general medium for having a world."

"All consciousness is consciousness of something."

"Our relationship to the world is not purely cognitive."

"Existence precedes and conditions essence."

"We must find a new relationship to being in itself."

"A man does not exist as a body without existing as consciousness."

"Philosophy is the conversion of the world into discourse."

"Being and nothingness are ultimately indistinguishable."

"We cannot speak about the absolute without speaking about it in relative terms."

"The question is our very being."

"Consciousness has no windows; it is wholly intentional."

"Our incarnate being is a necessary condition of consciousness."

"The world is my intentional object."

"The body is not an object to be known; it is our ground of knowing."

"Expression is never adequacy to thought."

"Being is ambiguous and is expressed in multiple ways."

"Culture is the acquisition of meaning."

"Being reveals itself through our engagement with the world."

"We are responsible for the meaning we make."

"The body is the medium of our world."

"Being is not presence but rather appearing."

"The fundamental structure of existence is being-in-the-world."