Philosophy Quotes

"The crisis of rationality is a crisis of communication"

"Reason is intersubjective, not merely individual"

"Modernity creates problems that only more thoughtful modernity can solve"

"The human condition is fundamentally communicative"

"The pathologies of modernity demand theoretical diagnosis"

"Language is never merely instrumental"

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

"The greatest trick of ideology is making us forget it exists."

"We live in a fantasy world, pretending to live in a real one."

"The subject is what speaks when ideology is forced to silence."

"We need more perverts, not fewer—perverts who question everything."

"Logic is just violence dressed in the clothes of reason."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"We are not individuals; we are multiplicities."

"Existence precedes essence, but essence precedes meaning."

"Schizoanalysis refuses psychoanalytic interpretation."

"The virtual is as real as the actual."

"Flux and fixity are co-creative."

"All assemblages are both productive and constrictive."

"Nomadic thought refuses sedentary categories."

"The fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant."

"A human being is not a thing or a substance, determined by nature or reason, but a being only inasmuch as he participates in reason."

"Reason itself has become an instrument."

"Materialism is the only honest response to reality."

"Reason without passion is impotent; passion without reason is blind."

"To understand society, one must understand its contradictions."

"Critique is the task of philosophy."

"Critique must be unrelenting."

"Reason is both the problem and the solution."

"The individual is the site of social contradiction."