„There are times inlife when the question of knowing if one can think differentlythan one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, isabsolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflectingat all.“

— Michel Foucault

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„There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect… What is philosophy today… if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?… The ‘essay’ —which must be understood as a transforming test of oneself in the play of truth and not as a simplifying appropriation of someone else for the purpose of communication—is the living body of philosophy, if, at least, philosophy is today still what it was once, that is to say, an askesis, an exercise of the self, in thought.“
— Michel Foucault
„What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.“
— Gloria Steinem
„Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.“
— Rosa Luxemburg
„I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.“
— Jodi Picoult