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> [“In a seminar at New York University in 1980, Foucault is reported to have said that the difference between late antiquity and early Christianity might be reduced to the following questions: the patrician pagan asks, "Given that I am who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/in-a-seminar-at-new-york-university-in-1980-foucault-is-reported-to/)

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

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## Other authors on Early Christianity

## 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/my-favourite-writer-is-beckett-and-i-keep-going-back-to-wallow-in-his/)

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> [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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