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Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian
Philosopher
About the author
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Talk
#Life
#Love
#People
#Understanding
#Positive
#Revolution
#Class
#Struggle
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Work
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Play
#Dreams
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Life
#Man
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Love
#People
#Work
#Weapons
#Singing
#Dancing
#Poetry
#Drinking
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Losing
#Pleasure
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Power
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Poor
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#World
#Risk
#Boredom
#Dying
#Starvation
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Nature
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Life
#Balance
#Production
#Insults
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Value
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Life
#Poverty
#Survival
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Order
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Work
#Enemy
#Necessity
#Society
#Desire
#Productivity
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Freedom
#Equality
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Raoul Vaneigem,
Belgian
Philosopher
#Life
#Civilization
#Contempt