Slavoj Žižek Philosophical Quotes — Page 6

Philosopher, Cultural Critic

Philosophical

“For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.”

World Order Meaningful

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Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher, Cultural Critic

Philosophical

“You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.”

Thinking Development Economic

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Philosophical

“My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.”

Mean Needs Intuition

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Philosophical

“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.”

Running Reality Distance

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Philosophical

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Decision Kings Democracy

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Philosophical

“We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.”

Thinking Guy Wrong Guy

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Philosophical

“There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.”

Men Space Kings

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Philosophical

“But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.”

Atheist Duty Responsible

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Philosophical

“The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.”

Mean Ideas Tolerance

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Philosophical

“We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to talk about the Jewish-Muslim civilization as an axis opposed to Christianity.”

Christian Civilization Axes

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Philosophical

“What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the goal of my life is the realization of all my potential, fulfillment of my innermost desires, whatever you want.”

Goal Desire Realization

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Philosophical

“When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.”

Agency Authority Brute Force

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Slavoj Žižek — Philosophical Quotes

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