Top 41 Vaneigem Quotes
#1. There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
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#3. What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
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#4. Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
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#5. Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
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#6. My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.
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#7. In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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#8. In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
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#10. Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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#11. In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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#12. To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.
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#13. 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.
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#14. To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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#15. The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.
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#16. We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
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#17. It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence
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#18. The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
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#19. I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
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#20. Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
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#21. As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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#22. 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.
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#24. The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
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#25. Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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#26. To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
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#27. 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.
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#28. Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.
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#29. Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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#30. Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation
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#31. People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.
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#32. Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.
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#33. There is something admirable ... to have to coexist ...
some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a
last judgment has been taken away.
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#35. People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.
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#36. The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.
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#39. Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
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#40. The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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#41. 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
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