Slavoj Žižek Philosophical Quotes — Page 5

Philosopher, Cultural Critic

Philosophical

“I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.”

Believe Cutting Commitment

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Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher, Cultural Critic

Philosophical

“Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.”

Writing Art Beautiful

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Philosophical

“The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.”

States Force

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Philosophical

“What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.”

Philosophy Can Do

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Philosophical

“While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.”

Hands Desire Hunting

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Philosophical

“We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.”

War Hero Missing

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Philosophical

“Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch”

Kitsch Verge

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Philosophical

“The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.”

Opera

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Philosophical

“Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.”

Ideas Guy Nazism

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Philosophical

“[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.”

War White Senior

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Philosophical

“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.”

Taken New York Guarantees That

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Philosophical

“In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.”

Kind Tragedy Uprising

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Slavoj Žižek — Philosophical Quotes

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