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Raoul Vaneigem has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
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Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers…
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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room…
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
— Albert Einstein
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The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her.…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which…
— Jacques Barzun
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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
— Robert Musil
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any…
— Carl Jung
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I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have…
— Gustave Moreau
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in…
— Vannevar Bush
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What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
— John Stuart Mill
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
— Virginia Woolf
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