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Life Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
- As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
- Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
- In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of…
- Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a…
- The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
- Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people…
- The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us…
- Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone,…
- I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
- There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
- The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
- People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive…
- Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generTo be rich nowadays merely means to…
- In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle