"as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."
- Slavoj Žižek
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
- Marcel Proust
"A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster"
- Mohadesa Najumi
"Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all tha..."
- Michel Foucault
"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."
- Carl R White
"How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephan..."
- David Hume
"Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are ..."
- Michel de Montaigne
"We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term."
"...civility doesn't require consensus or the suspension of criticism. It is simply the ability to disagree productively with others while respecting their sincerity and decency."
- Ravi Iyer and Jonathan Haidt