Quotes About Philosophy

Man is the measure of all things', meaning that there is no truth except that which man perceives.

Plato advocated discipline and perfectionism, the effort to produce quality in small quantity rather than a vast range of what is second-rate.

Nicholas Guild

thos anthrp?i daím?n Character for man is fate. Heraclitus

Adam Ferguson], 'Of the Principle of

In truth, Derrida has always been preoccupied (in the strongest senses of that word) by what precedes or exceeds language.

Deconstruction wouldn't make much sense without the structures that are subject to destructuring.

Derrida encourages us to be especially wary of the notion of the centre. We cannot get by without a concept of the centre, perhaps, but if one were looking for a single 'central idea' for Derrida's work it might be that of decentring.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.

Differance brings together the two notions of differing and deferring.

In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly.

The philosophy was nationalization, centralization, control, regulation. Now this had to end.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I've got some words of wisdom.

Cory didn't understand existential answers. Neither does life.

The Germanic tone… it's very calm yet quietly confident. I bet Germans were really cool, whoever they were back on Earth. They sound peaceful and meditative.

Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.

Philosophy, in its longing to rationalize, formalize, define, delimit, to terminate enigma and uncertainty, to co-operate wholeheartedly with the police, is nihilistic in the ultimate sense that it strives for the immobile perfection of death. But creativity cannot be brought to an end that is compatible with power, for unless life is extinguished, control must inevitably break down. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

One ascends into profundity, but profundity is nothing but a complication of the shallows, and 'one' is nowhere.

Kant's great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge. Such reason must be 'transcendental'. This is a word that has been propagated with enthusiasm, but only because Kant simultaneously provided a method of misreading it. To be transcendental is to be 'free' of reality. This is surely the most elegant euphemism in the history of Western philosophy.

Cybergothic is [...] guided by schizoanalysis in marking actuality as primary repression or collapsed potential

Either technology exists within time or time exists within technology.

Nature, far from being logical, 'is perhaps entirely the excess of itself', smeared ash and flame upon zero, and zero is immense.