Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"Heterogeneity and difference are fundamental to life itself."
Félix Guattari
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"Psychoanalysis must be reimagined beyond its traditional institutional frameworks."
Félix Guattari
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"The unconscious speaks through multiple registers and expressions."
Félix Guattari
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"Machinic desire flows through all levels of reality and experience."
Félix Guattari
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"The molecular level of existence is as important as molar structures."
Félix Guattari
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"Collective subjectivity emerges from complex interactions rather than predetermined plans."
Félix Guattari
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"Singularities and multiplicities form the basis of all existence."
Félix Guattari
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"Ethico-aesthetic paradigms offer alternatives to instrumental rationality."
Félix Guattari
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"The smooth and the striated are two different ways of organizing experience."
Félix Guattari
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"Schizoanalysis offers tools for understanding desire outside repressive frameworks."
Félix Guattari
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"We must learn to embrace paradox and contradiction as features of existence."
Félix Guattari
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"We need new frameworks for thinking about desire, power, and freedom."
Félix Guattari
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"Singularity and multiplicity coexist in all phenomena and all beings."
Félix Guattari
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"The highest principle of thought is difference, not identity"
Gilles Deleuze
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"We must think in terms of multiplicities, not unities"
Gilles Deleuze
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"The sign does not represent reality but creates it"
Gilles Deleuze
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"The fold is the basic unit of reality, not the line or the point"
Gilles Deleuze
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"We must learn to think in terms of assemblages, not structures"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Language is not transparent but opaque with meaning"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Every identity contains the seeds of its own dissolution"
Gilles Deleuze
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"We must learn to think of humanity not as a collection of individuals, but as a form of life that exceeds its biological definition."
Giorgio Agamben
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"In the gap between word and thing lies the whole space of human experience."
Giorgio Agamben
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"To be human is to bear witness to what cannot be fully represented."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The body is the site where all political questions ultimately must be answered."
Giorgio Agamben
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"We are all, in a sense, caught between life and non-life, being and nothingness."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The human is defined not by reason but by the capacity to be without reason."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The threshold between life and death is not a line but a space of infinite complexity."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The sacred is profaned the moment it enters language."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The problem is not that we think too much, but that we think in the wrong way about what we are thinking."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The obscene supplement is always already present in any system of rules."
Slavoj Žižek