If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing… — Simon Critchley Activity 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… — Simon Critchley Accepting Copy Share Image
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley Current situation 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… — Simon Critchley Belief 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… — Simon Critchley Acceptance Copy Share Image
It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth. — Simon Critchley Limits 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… — Simon Critchley Anxious 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,"… — Simon Critchley Disappointment 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… — Simon Critchley Assertion 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… — Simon Critchley Anarchist Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Able 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… — Simon Critchley Anorexics 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… — Simon Critchley Animal 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… — Simon Critchley Beckett Copy Share Image
In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist… — Simon Critchley Capitalist Copy Share Image
I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of… — Simon Critchley Clean Copy Share Image
We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality. — Simon Critchley Humans Copy Share Image
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of… — Simon Critchley Answers Copy Share Image
Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art… — Simon Critchley Art Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Barack Copy Share Image
I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've… — Simon Critchley Deals Copy Share Image
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the… — Simon Critchley Affirmation Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is… — Simon Critchley Affirming Copy Share Image
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. — Simon Critchley Knows Copy Share Image
Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was… — Simon Critchley Articulation Copy Share Image
