Home / Quotes / Quote by Slavoj Žižek

Quote by Slavoj Žižek

“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”

Author

Slavoj Žižek

A Slovenian philosopher and an influential figure in contemporary Western philosophy. Born on March 21, 1949, Slavoj Žižek is known for his unique Marxist perspective and profound analysis of culture, politics, and film. more

“What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly”

Source: The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”

People Humanity Boring Idiot

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”

World War Saws Painting Chaos Studios Paris War Of The Worlds Officers Shocked Second World War Guernica

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“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.”

Enjoy Taken Information New York Dear Smoke Guarantees Hotel Guests Regulation Sheets Guarantees That Infringement

Book:First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.”

Kind Littles White Deserve Distance Native Thrive Native American Protestants Anglo Saxon Inverted Away We Go

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.”

Knows Know How Too Much Spending Boat Scotland Scottish Misers

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”

Problem My Own Practice Insight

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”

Source: Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

Quote by Slavoj Žižek

Author

You May Also Like