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Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian Philosopher
Born: Mar 21, 1934
Been Before Life Love Our Work
Related authors: Albert Camus Aristotle Confucius Friedrich Nietzsche Lao Tzu Plato Socrates Sun Tzu
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem
Positive Life Love Class Struggle People Everyday Life Understanding Revolution Mouth Everyday Corpse Class Struggle About Constraints Talk Without Referring Refusal Subversive Explicitly Who
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. Raoul Vaneigem
Work Complete Consume Consuming Survive To Survive Cycle Hellish
The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it. Raoul Vaneigem
Key Come Instructions Within Us Each
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. Raoul Vaneigem
Dreams Free Controlling Our Our Dreams Only Subjectivity Surrendering Escape Commonplace Manipulating Play
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. Raoul Vaneigem
Work Enemy Society Industrial Always Been Which Confuses Create Producing Productivity Necessity Desire
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. Raoul Vaneigem
Knowledge Value Few Our Everything Minds Has-Been Only Taken Advantage Since Said Been Banal Essentially
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. Raoul Vaneigem
Myself Losing Pleasure Find Exist Eruption Forgetting Realize Lived
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. Raoul Vaneigem
Life Survival Poverty Become Our Way Has-Been More Mere Terms Reduced Been Profound
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. Raoul Vaneigem
Rich Nowadays Possess Objects Merely Poor Means Large Large Number Number
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Raoul Vaneigem
Work Love People Drinking Singing Holding Dancing Weapons Slowly Inventing Poetry Arguing Picking New Also Making Up Same Who Streets Slaughterhouses
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. Raoul Vaneigem
Nature Our Remake Rediscover Task
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? Raoul Vaneigem
World Starvation Entails Boredom Risk Shall Die Dying Wants Which Who Guarantee
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. Raoul Vaneigem
Freedom Equality Citizen King Before Fraternity Kingdom Through Consumption Democratic Monarchy
It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives. Raoul Vaneigem
Invent Own Our Entirely Up Us Lives

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