“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
“What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.”
― The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext
― The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext
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