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  • Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

    Luce Irigaray (1985). “This Sex which is Not One”, p.214, Cornell University Press
  • Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.

    Ocean   Men   Land  
  • Every desire has a relation to madness.

  • Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

    Real   Self   Views  
    Luce Irigaray (2015). “Building a New World”, p.75, Springer
  • Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

    Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
  • letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

    Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
  • ...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray

    Distance   Eye   Smell  
  • Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

    Plato   Philosophy   Real  
    Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
  • Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.

    Clouds   Air   Self  
    Luce Irigaray (2000). “To be two”, Athlone Press
  • Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

    Luce Irigaray (1993). “An Ethics of Sexual Difference”, p.5, Cornell University Press
  • Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.

    Nature   Men   Males  
    Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
  • Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

    Sex   Taken   Leaving  
  • Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

    Luce Irigaray, Stephen Pluhácek (2003). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.66, Columbia University Press
  • Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.

    Light   Nuclear   Use  
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