Philosophy Quotes

"The exception is what cannot be included in any way whatsoever, since it is taken into account only to be excluded."

"What defines humanity is not reason alone, but the capacity to be abandoned by reason."

"Language is the house of being, but we are homeless in our own language."

"To study philosophy is to study how we have been excluded from ourselves."

"The exception reveals the rule; the rule exists only through the exception."

"Language does not belong to us; we belong to language."

"To think is to be separated from thought."

"Language is the grave of thoughts that have died."

"The exception is what defines normality, not the reverse."

"Language is what separates us from the animals; it also separates us from ourselves."

"The human condition is not the same as human nature."

"Thinking is dangerous because it might lead to revolution."

"Language is not an instrument of communication; it is the house of being."

"The human condition is characterized by natality, plurality, and worldliness."

"We are not discussing problems but asking questions about the human condition."

"A person is not just what he does but what he could have done."

"The world of things and the world of men are separate."

"The human condition is characterized by plurality and distinction."

"The unconscious is not a psychic topos, but a machinic process that cuts across all organized territories."

"Schizophrenia is not a disease but a potential way of being in the world."

"Desire is not something that exists prior to the social field; it is produced within it."

"Language is a territory that can be deterritorialized and reterritorialized."

"The molecular and the molar are not opposites but different scales of the same process."

"We are not subjects who possess consciousness; we are processes of becoming conscious."

"The rhizome offers a model for thought that resists hierarchical organization."

"Singularity and multiplicity are not contradictory but complementary."

"Meaning is not fixed but constantly produced and transformed in practice."

"We are all both victims and creators of the systems we inhabit."

"The body is not a machine; it is a living process of becoming."

"Heterogeneity is the natural state; homogeneity must be constantly imposed and maintained."