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  • #1
    Dmitri Volkogonov
    “What remains a mystery, however, is not the financial details of his everyday life, but how he, like his comrades Trotsky and Stalin—none of them ever having worked for a living, and none of them having anything in common with the working class—could think they had the right to determine the fate of a great nation, and to carry out their bloody, monstrous experiment.”
    Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: A New Biography

  • #2
    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #3
    Blaise Pascal
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #4
    Blaise Pascal
    “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

    (Letter 16, 1657)”
    Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #8
    Jean Baudrillard
    “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
    Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

  • #9
    Jean Baudrillard
    “Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
    Jean Baudrillard

  • #10
    Jean Baudrillard
    “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
    Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

  • #11
    Jean Baudrillard
    “Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
    Jean Baudrillard

  • #12
    Slavoj Žižek
    “Q- What makes you depressed?

    Seeing stupid people happy.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #13
    Slavoj Žižek
    “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.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #14
    Slavoj Žižek
    “Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #15
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #16
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

  • #17
    Mao Zedong
    “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
    Mao Tse-tung

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #19
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #20
    Thomas Aquinas
    “Beware the man of a single book.”
    St. Thomas Aquinas

  • #21
    Thomas Aquinas
    “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”
    St. Thomas Aquinas

  • #22
    Thomas Aquinas
    “Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine”
    St.Thomas Aquinas

  • #23
    Joseph Conrad
    “I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: work

  • #24
    John Berger
    “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
    John Berger

  • #25
    Thomas Bernhard
    “Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.”
    Thomas Bernhard, Correction

  • #26
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #27
    Slavoj Žižek
    “We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
    Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

  • #28
    Slavoj Žižek
    “Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #29
    Slavoj Žižek
    “The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #30
    Slavoj Žižek
    “Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
    Slavoj Žižek
    tags: love



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