"Words are never 'only words'; they matter because……" — Slavoj Žižek
"Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do."
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38 Quotes by Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek has 38 quotes on this site.
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We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our…
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My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask…
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I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I…
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
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When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
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On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully…
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For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans…
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We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending…
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Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a…
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True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a…
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The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than…
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a…
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat…
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract,…
— Yves Klein
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In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to…
— Tim Pawlenty
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In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way…
— Mark Epstein
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Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same…
— Morton Feldman
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I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We…
— Ben Crenshaw
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Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or…
— Haruki Murakami
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily…
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Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a…
— Steven Pressfield
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At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours…
— Isabel Allende
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Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely…
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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