Philosophy Quotes

"The other is absolutely other, and this alterity must be respected unconditionally."

"The concept of presence is always already haunted by absence."

"Deconstruction is not destruction, but rather an analysis of structures."

"The undecidable is not merely an obstacle but the very structure of decision."

"The spectral appears when presence and absence are no longer opposites."

"The other cannot be reduced to the same or to knowledge."

"Being is always already deferred, postponed, differed."

"One must think the relationship between justice and the incalculable."

"Culture is a system of discriminations and evaluations"

"We are all implicated in the structures we criticize"

"Secular humanism provides a framework for universal values"

"The university is a site where dominant ideas are naturalized"

"Representation always involves power and therefore ethics"

"We are all products of histories not of our making"

"Individuality must be reconciled with solidarity; the private venture must not be turned into a national institution."

"The native's world is a Manichaean world, divided into compartments, white and black."

"The colonial world is a world cut in two, divided by a high, solid wall."

"The Negro is not. Any more than the white man is."

"We must begin everything afresh from the perspective of the enslaved."

"For the native, objectivity is always used against him."

"The colonial situation is a Manichaean situation; it is impossible to get away from it."

"Humanism must be universalized; it can only exist in a national framework."

"The colonized individual is a fatalist."

"The colonized subject is ensnared in the old stories invented for him by the colonizer."

"Nationalism is a stage in the development of consciousness."

"We cannot say that the said reason is a world reason."

"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the seat of unknown forces and capacities."

"Schizophrenia is the universe in its natural state."

"Subjectivity is produced by multiple components operating in conjunction."

"The body is not a unified entity but a multiplicity of forces and intensities."