Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley Copy Share
There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share
