Dennis

“Linguïsten houden er congressen over, filosofen en logici zitten ermee verveeld: het probleem van de zelfreferentie. De kwestie is: kan een taal ooit over iets anders gaan dan over zichzelf? Kan God naar zichzelf verwijzen? Kan ik dat? Een wijsvinger kan niet wijzen naar zichzelf, een oog kan zichzelf niet zien. En toch kijken honden en dwazen inderdaad naar de vinger die wijst, en niet naar de richting waarin gewezen wordt.”
― Patricia De Martelaere, Het onverwachte antwoord

“But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.”
― Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II