Philosophy Quotes

"We are always already situated in a world we did not choose."

"Philosophy must remain in contact with lived experience."

"Intentionality means consciousness is always directed toward something."

"Generality and particularity are woven together in perception."

"The body is the ground of all meaning and understanding."

"Rationality must be rooted in pre-rational embodied experience."

"Freedom and facticity are not opposed but dialectically related."

"The phenomenal field is not constructed but inhabited."

"The lived body is not an object but the subject of experience."

"Phenomenology is not introspection but a return to lived experience."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal."

"A theory that cannot be criticized is not a good theory."

"We must distinguish between the context of discovery and the context of justification."

"Thinking is not an activity very many people wish to do."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Philosophy begins with wonder."

"What is called 'objectivity' is often just conformity to established standards."

"We are imprisoned by our own methods and concepts."

"Rationality is a myth we have created to justify our preferences."

"We are all prisoners of the language we inherited."

"The map is never the territory it represents."

"Meaning is created, not discovered."

"Standards of judgment change when perspectives change."

"The danger of any system is that it becomes self-perpetuating."

"What we believe shapes what we can see."

"We are all philosophers whether we acknowledge it or not."

"The paradox of the liar's sentence reminds us that language contains its own puzzles."

"To be is to be the value of a variable."

"Ontological commitment is the price of discourse."