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> [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 it?" But when the human becomes animal, the effect is disgusting, and if we laugh at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/when-the-animal-becomes-human-the-effect-is-pleasingly-benign-and-we/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

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> [My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/my-favourite-writer-is-beckett-and-i-keep-going-back-to-wallow-in-his/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

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## Other authors on Beckett

## More by Simon Critchley

> [If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/if-i-had-a-religious-experience-what-i-know-for-sure-is-that-i-would/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/we-live-in-a-world-that-is-dominated-by-science-and-that-s-not-a-bad/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/the-current-situation-with-regard-to-theory-is-odd-and-maybe-defined/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/there-are-two-forms-of-disappointment-that-interest-me-religious-and/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/if-the-denial-of-death-is-self-hatred-as-it-is-to-deny-our-freedom/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/it-is-so-ridiculous-to-limit-oneself-to-one-version-of-the-truth/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/philosophy-for-me-is-essentially-atheistic-now-that-s-an-anxious/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/for-me-philosophy-begins-with-these-experiences-of-disappointment-a/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/obama-dreams-of-a-society-without-power-relations-without-the-agonism/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/the-influence-of-being-in-new-york-made-me-realize-a-lot-of-the/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/the-other-side-of-my-work-is-political-disappointment-the-realization/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/melancholia-for-freud-is-the-relationship-that-the-subject-takes-up/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/when-the-animal-becomes-human-the-effect-is-pleasingly-benign-and-we/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/my-favourite-writer-is-beckett-and-i-keep-going-back-to-wallow-in-his/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

> [In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/in-the-us-what-passes-for-christianity-and-it-is-to-say-the-least-a/)

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