Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The connection between knowledge and domination is not accidental but structural."Edward Said
"The task of cultural analysis is to show how representations serve or challenge power."Edward Said
"Power operates through representation, through the production of knowledge."Edward Said
"Secular intellectual discourse is an attempt to understand the world on its own terms."Edward Said
"Culture gives us meaning but also constrains our possibilities."Edward Said
"We must become nomadic to think beyond the sedentary constraints of representation."Félix Guattari
"Subjectivity is not something given, but something produced."Félix Guattari
"We are all schizophrenics in one way or another."Félix Guattari
"The rhizome is always in the middle, never beginning or ending."Félix Guattari
"The unconscious is not a dark continent but a frontier of possibility."Félix Guattari
"We must schizoanalyze ourselves before we can understand society."Félix Guattari
"The body without organs is the plane of absolute deterritorialization."Félix Guattari
"The rhizome has no beginning, middle, or end."Félix Guattari
"The plane of immanence is the foundation of all existence."Félix Guattari
"The smooth and the striated are in constant negotiation."Félix Guattari
"The unconscious speaks in multiplicities, not in unities."Félix Guattari
"The plane of consistency is where all singularities connect."Félix Guattari
"There is no outside text."Jacques Derrida
"Deconstruction is not destruction."Jacques Derrida
"The trace is the erasure of itself."Jacques Derrida
"Différance is the formation of form."Jacques Derrida
"The center is not the center."Jacques Derrida
"Aporia is the condition of the impossible."Jacques Derrida
"Meaning is always deferred and displaced."Jacques Derrida
"The gift is impossible."Jacques Derrida
"Hauntology structures our present."Jacques Derrida
"The undecidable is the condition of decision."Jacques Derrida
"Context is never exhausted."Jacques Derrida
"The signature is never the same twice."Jacques Derrida
"Iterability is the condition of language."Jacques Derrida