Philosophy Quotes

"In matters of state, experience is the supreme guide."

"Everyone is a philosopher in their own way."

"Common sense is riddled with contradictions."

"Man is neither good nor evil, he is born neutral"

"Language is not what I am"

"Sexuality is something that has been deeply buried in our culture"

"There is no such thing as repression, only discursive production"

"Discipline is not punishment"

"Madness is the absence of work"

"Criticism is not a matter of saying that things are not good the way they are"

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

"What is philosophy if not a way to love?"

"I prefer the word structure to the word form because form has too many associations with the physical"

"Madness is the condition of possibility of psychiatric knowledge"

"To be part of the governed population means to be seen constantly"

"The resistance of the patient is not an obstacle to analysis but its very condition"

"I am aware of the disloyalty of the intellectual who speaks"

"The world is made up of differences"

"There is no innocence, there is only degrees of guilt"

"Language precedes us"

"The human is not born; he is made"

"The modern individual is the result of the exercise of power"

"Reality is perceived through the filter of our symbols and narratives"

"Ethical behavior is a practice, not a belief system"

"The body is a political entity"

"To speak is not to see"

"The archive is what defines the very threshold of what can be said"

"Being is difference"

"The subject is constituted through discourse"

"One does not inhabit a territory, one inhabits language"