Philosophy Quotes

"Man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge."

"Madness is to absolute reason as blackness is to absolute light."

"The task of philosophy is to describe the actual working of power relations."

"Confession is a ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement."

"I would say that I am a theoretician, but a theoretician who never stops moving."

"Language precedes life."

"Speech implies a hierarchy; writing implies democracy."

"What is philosophy if not a critical reflection on who we are?"

"What I am doing is cultural criticism, not psychology."

"The impossible is the real task of thought."

"The order of things is nothing but a human invention."

"We are always already caught in systems of meaning."

"I would never die for an idea because ideas grow and change."

"Every interpretation is a form of violence."

"Man is an invention of recent date."

"To question everything is to remain human."

"Progress is not a direction but a form of analysis."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

"The contradiction within capitalism contains the seeds of its dissolution."

"Philosophy without practice is mere abstraction."

"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain."

"Morality and legislation have the same object—to increase happiness and diminish suffering."

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection and makes it the foundation of morals and legislation."

"Recollect that the manner of speaking of a thing which is presented to you in the guise of an axiom is, in truth, a matter which is susceptible of justification."

"Rational thought and language go hand in hand."

"The springs of action are in the mind, and the mind is in the body."

"In every human heart there is a struggle between the forces of good and evil."

"The principle of utility approves of every action according to its tendency to promote happiness."

"The mind has great influence over the body."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned."