Philosophy Quotes

"Importance is a relative conception."

"The recourse to metaphor marks the failure of language."

"The general conceptions introduced for the purposes of intercourse between members of a community exercise a unifying influence upon human thought."

"Consciousness is not analysable into constituents."

"Speculative philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas."

"The discrepancy between the scientific and the personal points of view is the essential problem of philosophy."

"Conversive prehension is the transfer of conceptual feeling into physical feeling."

"All modern philosophy stems from Descartes; and all education from the Greeks."

"Philosophy is the product of wonder."

"There is no greater contradiction than that of the one and the many."

"The individual is shaped by society, yet society can only exist through the actions of individuals."

"Language itself can be a prison if it accepts the categories imposed by dominant systems."

"Eros and Thanatos are fundamental forces that societies channel toward creation or destruction."

"Language reflects the ideology it serves; changing reality requires changing language."

"Critical theory must be negative, pointing out contradictions rather than offering easy solutions."

"The tragic dimension of human existence cannot be overcome by consumer goods or entertainment."

"The individual is both created by society and contains the potential to transform it."

"Language that affirms the status quo cannot be the language of liberation."

"The conversation between past utopian thought and present reality is what produces critical consciousness."

"Language is the house of being."

"The nothing nothings."

"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed."

"Letting be reveals the being of beings."

"The fundamental question is: Why are there beings at all, rather than nothing?"

"The thinker is more impoverished than the sage."

"The question of being is the most universal and the most empty of questions."

"The world is not a collection of objects but a web of meaningful relations."

"We are always already in a world of meaning."

"Being withdraws even as it reveals itself."

"Being itself is the most universal and least understood phenomenon."