Rik Peeters

“When talking to a Communist, don't you have the impression that you are speaking to a "beleiver"? For a Communist, too, everything is taken care of, at least in the current phase of the dialectical process. He is in possission of the truth he knows. And, what is more, he believes, and what is still more, he wants to believe. Even if you could prove otherwise to him, he will not be convinced, because he has given himself up to the Party. The Party knows better, the Party knows for him.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Alleen wetenschap heeft de macht om ketters het zwijgen op te leggen. Vandaag de dag is zij de enige institutie die gezag kan claimen. Zoals de Kerk in het verleden, heeft zij de macht om onafhankelijke denkers te vernietigen of te marginaliseren.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

“I write this diary reluctantly. Its dishonest honesty wearies me. For whom am I writing? If I am writing for myself, then why is it being published? If for the reader, who do I pretend that I am talking to myself? Are you talking to yourself so that others hear you?”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Contempt? What! I adore women! Yet it is true that until now I have not been able to figure out what they are to me in the spiritual order of things, enemies or allies? And this means that half of humanity is eluding my grasp.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary