Quotes About Philosophy

C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.)

perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Man goes round in circles because the structure, the structure of man, is toric

Je pense où je ne suis pas, donc je suis où je ne pense pas. Je ne suis pas, là où je suis le jouet de ma pensée. Je pense à ce que je suis, là où je ne pense pas penser.

Çünkü gerçeÄŸin ay?rt edici özelliÄŸi hayal edilemez olmas?d?r. (...) EÄŸer gerçek diye bir kavram varsa, son derece komplekstir ve bir bütün oluÅŸturacak ÅŸekilde kavranmas? imkans?zd?r.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Reading in no way obliges us to understand.

Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

I am where I think not.

Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

Platón tvrdil, že filozof musí filozofova? celou svojou dušou (aj ke? vlastným orgánom filozofie je iba rozum). to isté môžeme poveda? o umelcovi.

Like the Schoolmen, but for different reasons, the Indians distinguish between the personality (which is for us the spiritual subsistence of the soul) and the material individuality (which arises from the dispositions of the body).

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.

All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency.

La modestia conviene al sabio, pero no a las ideas que posee y que debe defender

Léo ferré disait de la mélancolie: « C'est un désespoir qui n'a pas les moyens. »