"Our task is not to rediscover nature but…" — Raoul Vaneigem

"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."

— Raoul Vaneigem

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40 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize…
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that…
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way…
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions,…
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of…
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned…
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom…
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to…

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
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