Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The marketplace of ideas is a marketplace; ideas are sold, not exchanged."
Max Horkheimer
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"Theory without the possibility of praxis becomes the intellectual's comfortable despair."
Max Horkheimer
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"Language is not life; it gives life to itself."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Schizophrenia is a voyage through the body."
Gilles Deleuze
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"What matters is not the content but the connections between things."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Language is not representation; it is creation."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Desire is not lack; it is the creative force of becoming."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The body is not an organism but an assemblage of forces."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The problem with representation is that it always lies about multiplicity."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Every concept is a brick in the construction of thought."
Gilles Deleuze
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"We are not subjects who act; we are events who become."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Identity is a temporary assemblage, not a permanent state."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The question is not 'What does it mean?' but 'What can it do?'"
Gilles Deleuze
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"The system does not resist change; it incorporates it."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The body keeps the score, but the mind composes the music."
Gilles Deleuze
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"We must think beyond the binary of nature and culture."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The exception is more interesting than the rule."
Carl Schmitt
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"Whom does the land belong to? The question cannot be answered by law alone."
Carl Schmitt
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"Language is not neutral; it always carries political weight."
Carl Schmitt
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"Identity presupposes differentiation from something else."
Carl Schmitt
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"Absolutes cannot be grounded in relativism."
Carl Schmitt
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"The nature of the enemy cannot be predetermined."
Carl Schmitt
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"All political concepts contain theological remnants."
Carl Schmitt
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"Every constitution embodies a particular worldview."
Carl Schmitt
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"Mythology precedes rationality in all human affairs."
Carl Schmitt
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"Identity is defined not by what one is, but by whom one opposes."
Carl Schmitt
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"Neutrality presupposes the existence of a tertium non datur."
Carl Schmitt
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"The will to survive is more fundamental than the will to justice."
Carl Schmitt
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"Language shapes political reality more than reality shapes language."
Carl Schmitt
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"The state of nature is not peace but perpetual war."
Carl Schmitt