It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives. Raoul Vaneigem More Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem More Quotes From Raoul Vaneigem Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. Raoul Vaneigem rediscoverytasksnature Daydreaming subverts the world. Raoul Vaneigem daydreamingworld People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. Raoul Vaneigem tiredmeanpeople People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away. Raoul Vaneigem slippingbelievepeople 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 creativityworkideas Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Raoul Vaneigem comebackinsultbalance Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general. Raoul Vaneigem origin-of-lifeeyelaw There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. Raoul Vaneigem technologyphilosophyscience In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. Raoul Vaneigem realabsencemen Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Raoul Vaneigem umpiresdegreescivilization Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. Raoul Vaneigem purchasingwealthpower As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. Raoul Vaneigem survivalprofoundlife Hope is the leash of submission. Raoul Vaneigem submissionleashes In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. Raoul Vaneigem equalitykingshouse To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection Raoul Vaneigem festivitiespreparingdelight We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. Raoul Vaneigem boredomwinningworld Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others. Raoul Vaneigem individualbodyself What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? Raoul Vaneigem greatest-pleasurespleasurewish Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Raoul Vaneigem The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. Raoul Vaneigem
