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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“Language is the house of being.”

Martin Heidegger · Phenomenology

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi · Moral and political thought

“Existence precedes essence.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“Man is condemned to be free.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“Hell is other people.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

Simone de Beauvoir · Existentialism

“To will oneself free is also to will others free.”

Simone de Beauvoir · Existentialism

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Simone Weil · Moral philosophy

“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.”

Simone Weil · Moral philosophy

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”

Albert Camus · Absurdism

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

Albert Camus · Absurdism

“The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”

John Rawls · Political philosophy

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.”

Frantz Fanon · Postcolonial philosophy

“The black person has two dimensions. One with his fellows, the other with the white person. A black person behaves differently with a white person and with another black person.”

Frantz Fanon · Postcolonial philosophy

“National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.”

Frantz Fanon · Postcolonial philosophy

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

Michel Foucault · Post-structuralism

“The soul is the prison of the body.”

Michel Foucault · Post-structuralism

“Without music, life would be an error.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“The falseness of a judgement is for us not necessarily an objection to a judgement.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman, a rope over an abyss.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“One thing is needful: to 'give style' to one's character.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.'”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Genealogy and perspectivism

“For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word 'meaning', it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Analytic philosophy

“Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“Boredom is the root of all evil.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“Subjectivity is the truth.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“The task is to love the people we see, not to seek new ones.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“The choice itself is decisive for the content of the personality.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Existentialism (forerunner)

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“In choosing myself, I choose man.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“Man is a useless passion.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“Bad faith is a lie to oneself.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“By the mere appearance of the Other, I am put in the position of passing judgement on myself as an object.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“Anguish is the feeling of being responsible for all people through one's own choice.”

Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism

“She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute — she is the Other.”

Simone de Beauvoir · Existentialism