Truth Quotes

"We are all always already implicated in the violence we seek to resist."

"Truth is produced, not discovered."

"Reality is not fixed; it is constantly being negotiated."

"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."

"We are all implicated in systems of power; complicity is inescapable."

"Critical thinking requires us to examine our own complicity in systems of power."

"Facts are made, not discovered."

"Facts require witnessing to exist."

"Every claim to truth requires a laboratory or equivalent space of demonstration."

"Facts are achievements, not givens."

"Truth is not a correspondence with reality but a way of ordering it."

"Facts need advocates to circulate and persist."

"Every fact is laden with interpretation and judgment."

"Facts are constructed, but they are not thereby less real or objective."

"Every claim to universality is actually particular and partial."

"Multiplicity is not a failure of singularity, but a success in its own right."

"Knowledge practices are always complicit in the worlds they describe and create."

"The question of what counts as real is always a question of what practices are mobilized."

"Difference-making is the hallmark of reality; what matters is what makes a difference."

"The notion of representation presupposes a gap between signifier and signified that must be overcome; but this gap is itself a fiction."

"We must resist the temptation to return to representationalism, to the idea that language or discourse mirrors reality."

"The erosion of meaning is the crisis of our age."

"The crisis of meaning cannot be solved by acceleration."

"To be human is to be constitutively non-innocent; we are always implicated."

"Responsibility means taking seriously the consequences of our actions."

"Knowledge is always partial, situated, and accountable."

"We must practice precision in our claims and humility in our certainties."

"Facts are constructed through collective work and negotiation."

"The map is never neutral; it always reflects particular interests and perspectives."

"The real is continuously performed and reproduced through collective action."