Philosophy Quotes

"Language is never merely a transparent medium but always carries histories within it."

"What we cannot know shapes our understanding as profoundly as what we do know."

"The problem is not that we consume too much, but that we consume the wrong things in the wrong way."

"I came to understand that the destruction of our environment is not due to ignorance but to greed and the desire for power."

"The destruction of our environment is a symptom of a deeper moral crisis."

"A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land community to plain member and citizen of it."

"Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land."

"The land was not made for commerce, but commerce was made for the land."

"Conservation is not a restriction on civilization, but a foundation for it."

"A sand county is not a place on the map, but a state of mind."

"We must learn to see the land as a source of life, not merely a source of profit."

"The wilderness within us is the same wilderness we encounter in nature."

"Language is the house of being."

"The exception is more interesting than the rule."

"The potential to not-be is what distinguishes human existence."

"Language speaks us before we speak language."

"Being is what is most hidden from us."

"Meaning emerges from the gaps between words."

"Philosophy begins in perplexity."

"We live in the suspended moment of decision."

"Philosophy is the endless questioning of the obvious."

"The world I am entering is not outlined in black and white, but in shifting grays and ambiguous hues."

"Let us leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder him everywhere they find him."

"Individuality must not therefore come to the fore."

"Man is not merely a biological phenomenon, but a social phenomenon."

"Individualism is the luxury of the colonizer."

"Man is human on condition that he wants to be human."

"The colonial situation is a Manichaean situation."

"Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between 'the Orient' and 'the Occident.'"

"Humanism is at its best a very complicated and actually fragile thing."