Wisdom Quotes

"The question is more powerful than any answer."

"Being human is remaining open to what we cannot master."

"The question preserves what answers attempt to foreclose."

"Meaning is not deposited in things, but emerges in the relations between things."

"The world is not a sum of things, but a totality of relations."

"We are creatures of ambiguity."

"Ambiguity is not something to be overcome, but to be embraced."

"The world is revealed through action, not contemplation alone."

"The essence of humanity is to be unfinished."

"Emotions are not private mental states, but ways of engaging with the world."

"To be human is to be caught between opposing forces."

"The world is inexhaustible in its meaning."

"The world resists our attempts to master it completely."

"The symptom is precisely what you should accept."

"Speech brings the subject into being."

"The symptom is what the body says when speech fails."

"The ego is the seat of illusion."

"Failure is the truth of analysis."

"What is repressed returns as symptom."

"Language wounds the body with meaning."

"The analyst must maintain productive ignorance."

"The body speaks what speech cannot."

"Everything has been figured out except how to live"

"Everything that is necessary is imperfect"

"Hunger is the measure of man"

"What we call reason is a collection of choices"

"The only way to escape the absurd is to embrace it."

"The only reasonable thing we can say is that we are not reasonable."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Once we have accepted the basic absurdity of life, everything else is easy."