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