Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

If you can say no to the things you don't like and if you can persist along the way of trying to get better, you will find them, you always will. That is the law of life.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.