Philosophy Quote by Slavoj Žižek — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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 to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.”

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”

“€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.”

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

“We don't really want to get what we think that we want.”

“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?”

“Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.”

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”

“This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;”

“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.”