My personal quote thingy cope and seeth
13th Century
14th Century
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
"In order to know virtue we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man."
Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814
"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
Denis Diderot, 1713-1784
"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy."
"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
19th Century
"A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. So far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it, whether we consider it from the point of view that by its properties it is capable of satisfying human wants, or from the point that those properties are the product of human labour. It is as clear as noon-day, that man, by his industry, changes the forms of the materials furnished by Nature, in such a way as to make them useful to him. The form of wood, for instance, is altered, by making a table out of it. Yet, for all that, the table continues to be that common, every-day thing, wood. But, so soon as it steps forth as a commodity, it is changed into something transcendent. It not only stands with its feet on the ground, but, in relation to all other commodities, it stands on its head, and evolves out of its wooden brain grotesque ideas, far more wonderful than “table-turning” ever was."
Karl Marx, 1818-1883
"A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men’s labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour; because the relation of the producers to the sum total of their own labour is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between themselves, but between the products of their labour. This is the reason why the products of labour become commodities, social things whose qualities are at the same time perceptible and imperceptible by the senses. In the same way the light from an object is perceived by us not as the subjective excitation of our optic nerve, but as the objective form of something outside the eye itself. But, in the act of seeing, there is at all events, an actual passage of light from one thing to another, from the external object to the eye."
"A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism."
Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth."
"7. Nihilism is the rejection of the principles of civilisation as such. Civilisation is the conscious culture of human reason, i.e. science and morals."
Leo Strauss, 1899-1973
20th Century
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Communism knows no monster. ... Should abuse occur, the perpetrator would not be ostracized by his fellow human beings. They would not reject the social violator in order to reassure themselves of their humanity by comparing themselves to a non-human human, to a monster. They would be able to recognize what they have in common with him, and to realize that they could have done what he did. And this, we believe, is a much better way of reducing abuse to its lowest possible minimum than any search for normality."
Gilles Duave, 1947-
"Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon."
"The present communist movement needs to assimilate its past, to fully grasp what really happened in 1917-21 and how today differs from yesterday. Communist revolution will not promote a further development of production: capital has already accomplished this in a large number of countries. The transitional phase will consist of the immediate communisation of society, which includes armed insurrection: the State's military might cannot be underestimated. Besides, the working class has become such a potential social force that it is vital for capitalism to control it: this is the job of the unions and workers' parties, so one must prepare to confront them."
"Communism is not an ideal to be realised: it already exists, not as alternative lifestyles, autonomous zones or counter-communities that would grow within this society and ultimately change it into another one, but as an effort, a task to prepare for. It is the movement which tries to abolish the conditions of life determined by wage-labour, and it will abolish them only by revolution."
"We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much"
Gilles Delueze, 1925-1995
"Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering."
Roland Barthes, 1915-1980
"The author enters into his own death, writing begins."
"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you"
21st Century
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- ↑ Just gonna quote a redditor:
"Lacan is a conservative due to his insistence on the symbolic meaning and truth attributed to Language. In essence, the left wing is always connected to the proposition of a flux in the systems of the old, but Lacan sticks to the iconisation of Language as a bridge to the symbolic and imaginary, and the lack thereof as a way to transcend onto the realm of the real.
In addition, he is firmly for the notion that the subconscious is revealed by language instead of a power of Marxist collective consciousness"
u/thesuavecritic
