Occupation: Philosopher Birth: March 21, 1949
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..
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..
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 a….
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots..
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom..
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures..
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Becaus….
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they ar….
What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?.
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 ….
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse..
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, ….
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious..
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions..
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do..
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the pr….
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction..
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on..
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..
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them..
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire..