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Slavoj Zizek: top 100 quotes
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Hermeneutics (n.) asks not 'what is x' but 'what does it mean when you use the word x'; that asks not what is truth, but what does it mean when you use the word truth.
Love (n.) is whatever you can still betray.
Love (n.) is a way to come to terms with the traumatic drive and to gentrify it.
Love (n.) is giving something one doesn't have to someone who doesn't want it. Being loved is having thrown in one's face the gap between what I am and that unfathomable thing in me that is loved, and which I have no control over.
to Love (n.) is to privilege a finite temporal object over everything else.
Being (n.) is incomplete. It is never all but always non-all. Reality contains a blind-spot which indicates my inclusion in it.
The Philosopher (n.) asks not 'what is x' but 'what does it mean when you use the word x'. . Not what is truth, but what does it mean when you use the word truth.
The Philosopher (n.) is appreciated to the extent that a reader recognizes that philosopher's concepts all around in one's daily experience.
The Philosopher (n.) seeks to discern the hidden political process that sustains all these 'non' or 'pre'-political relationship.
The Philosopher (n.) seeks to make one aware of the disturbing thing he knew all along.
The Philosopher's (n.) measure of love is seen in seeing his concepts recognized all around by people in their daily experience.
Reading (n.) is an act whereby one can only betray an author by remaining faithful to him.
The Subject (n.) is he who is not able to assume the very core of his or her inner experience.
Structuralism (n.) is wrongheaded in that, while its basic gesture is to reduce the imaginary richness to a formal network of symbolic relations, it misses the fact that this formal structure is itself tied by an umbilical cord to some radical contingent material element which, in its pure particularity, 'is' the structure, embodies it.
Climate change (n.) is not undermining capitalism. Far from it. The forthcoming ecological disasters will serve as its greatest boost.
Alienation (n.) is a necessity as the very condition of the symbolic order.
Biopolitics (n.) is expert knowledge which deals not with subjects, but with individuals reduced to bare life.