Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality,… — Simon Critchley Activity Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Augustine Copy Share Image
The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which… — Simon Critchley Ability Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Accepting Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we… — Simon Critchley Familiar Copy Share Image
I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I… — Simon Critchley Academic Copy Share Image
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. — Simon Critchley Humans Copy Share Image
I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that… — Simon Critchley Facts Copy Share Image
Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity,… — Simon Critchley Doe Copy Share Image
There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the… — Simon Critchley Able Copy Share Image
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. — Simon Critchley Apes Copy Share Image
Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most… — Simon Critchley Anchors Copy Share Image
Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently… — Simon Critchley Brutal Copy Share Image
“In a seminar at New York University in 1980, Foucault is reported to have said that the difference between late antiquity and… — Simon Critchley Christian Copy Share Image
We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we… — Simon Critchley Believe Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in… — Simon Critchley Claims Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Difficult Copy Share Image
For authoritarians such as Lenin and Žižek, the dichotomy in politics is state power or no power, but I refuse to concede… — Simon Critchley Creation Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,… — Simon Critchley Common Copy Share Image
I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me,… — Simon Critchley Cases Copy Share Image
The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and… — Simon Critchley Commitment Copy Share Image
Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror… — Simon Critchley Awe Copy Share Image
So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is… — Simon Critchley Awful Copy Share Image
Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear,… — Simon Critchley Cities Copy Share Image
