Luce Irigaray famous quotes

03-24-2025

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Differences #Issues #Salvation
Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-manâ€™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.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Ocean #Men #Land
Every desire has a relation to madness.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Desire #Madness #Relation
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.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Nature #Men #Males
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

#Respect #Tolerance #Desire
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

#Respect #Acceptance #Important
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.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Real #Self #Views
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.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Light #Nuclear #Use
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Might #Becoming #Clinging
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mÃ©lÃ©tÃ¨ (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Plato #Philosophy #Real
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.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Clouds #Air #Self
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.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Sex #Taken #Leaving
...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 materialityâ€ -luce irigaray
-- Luce Irigaray

#Distance #Eye #Smell
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
-- Luce Irigaray

#Breathing #Taking Charge

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