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“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
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“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.”
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“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
― Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
― Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
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“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 painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
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