Pleasure Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value…

— Raoul Vaneigem

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

— Raoul Vaneigem

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

— Raoul Vaneigem

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

— Raoul Vaneigem

“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

— Raoul Vaneigem

“there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last judgment has…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Raoul Vaneigem

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

— Raoul Vaneigem

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

— Raoul Vaneigem

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

— Raoul Vaneigem