Needs Quote by Slavoj Žižek Download Open image “We need useless theory more than ever today.” — Slavoj Žižek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Needs Theory Today Useless
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
