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Communism will win.
We need useless theory more than ever today.
The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.
What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.
I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.
The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.
Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.
Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?
We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.
My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.
The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.
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.
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.
The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.
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.
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.
The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.