Confusion Quote by Paul de Man

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

— Terry Eagleton

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

“ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty…

— Karl Mannheim

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality;…

— Kenneth Burke

“As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the interests of the structure. Therefore, it has a…

— Václav Havel

Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various…

— Lionel Trilling

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production…

— Slavoj Žižek

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the…

— Karl Jaspers

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

— Teresa de Lauretis

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

— John Dewey