Assertion Quote by Simon Critchley

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching…

— Simon Critchley

We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the…

— Simon Critchley

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

— Simon Critchley

There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not…

— Simon Critchley

If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say,…

— Simon Critchley

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved…

— Simon Critchley

For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that,…

— Simon Critchley

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote…

— Simon Critchley

The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled…

— Simon Critchley

Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or…

— Simon Critchley

When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is…

— Simon Critchley