Constitutively contaminated with the existent.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

— Roland Barthes

Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed.

— Theodor W. Adorno

When the light dove parts the air in free flight and feels the air’s resistance, it might come to think that it would do much better still in space devoid of air.

— Immanuel Kant

Any creature marked out for eating had better be evil. This anthropological scheme has been sublimated all the way into epistemology. Idealism … is governed unknowingly by an ideology which says that the not-I … anything, finally, that reminds one of nature, is worth almost nothing, so that the unity of the self-sustaining thought can devour it in good conscience. This vindicates the principle of thought and, equally, whets its appetite. Philosophical system is the belly turned mind, just as rage is the defining mark of idealism in all its forms.

— Theodor W. Adorno

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

— Raoul Vaneigem