Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem Book Copy Share Image
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. — Raoul Vaneigem Forgetting Copy Share Image
“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.” — Raoul Vaneigem Art Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Absence Copy Share Image
“It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence” — Raoul Vaneigem Abundance Copy Share Image
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem Atoms Copy Share Image
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. — Raoul Vaneigem Art Copy Share Image
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. — Raoul Vaneigem Boredom Copy Share Image
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be… — Raoul Vaneigem Advantage Copy Share Image
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and… — Raoul Vaneigem Class Copy Share Image
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last… — Raoul Vaneigem Hope Copy Share Image
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to… — Raoul Vaneigem Desire Copy Share Image
“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that… — Raoul Vaneigem Life Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Civilization Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Abundance Copy Share Image
The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Absence Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Death Copy Share Image
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.… — Raoul Vaneigem Comfort Copy Share Image
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“What drives us to despair is not the immensity of our unsatisfied desires, but the moment when our fledgling passion discovers its… — Raoul Vaneigem Desire Copy Share Image
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality.… — Raoul Vaneigem Appropriation Copy Share Image
“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Argument Copy Share Image
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? — Raoul Vaneigem Anger Copy Share Image
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem Delight Copy Share Image
People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem Money Copy Share Image
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
