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Gillian Rose Quotes on Truth

Gillian Rose was a British philosopher and social theorist whose work occupied a singular position between Hegel, the Frankfurt School, and post-Nietzschean Continental thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Gillian Rose on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Gillian Rose:

    “The broken middle is the site of true philosophical thinking.”

  • Attributed to Gillian Rose:

    “Mourning becomes the law of intelligibility.”

  • Attributed to Gillian Rose:

    “The aporia of modernity is the wager of philosophy.”

  • Attributed to Gillian Rose:

    “To philosophize is to learn how to live with contradiction.”

  • Attributed to Gillian Rose:

    “Hegel cannot be retrieved as a critic of metaphysics; he is its difficult heir.”