58 quotes found
“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
“Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?”
“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”
“If you have reasons to love someone, you dont love them.”
“Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And Im writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum phys...”
“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us...”
“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I thin...”
“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Icelanda small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earthcan bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent...”
“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forge...”
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was t...”
“7,500, first-class, everythingand all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.”
“How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem t...”
“Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden starte...”
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is ...”
“The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.”
“We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.”
