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V. Y. Mudimbe Quotes

1941–2025

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (8 December 1941 – 22 April 2025) was a Congolese philosopher, academic and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe was Ruth F.

Socialists

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“Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an “other” among others.”

“A liberation movement is doomed once it stops to haggle over nuances of good and evil.”

“Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.”

“Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?”

“I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: V. Y. Mudimbe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.