Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear, the stronger the reverence for the just, the stronger your country's wall and the city's safety. — 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 Image
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 Image
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
