"Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on."

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Simon Critchley

#Philosophy Quotes #Creating Quotes #Nihilism Quotes

“Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages”
“Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.”
“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
“There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.”
“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
“Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didnâ€™t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we werenâ€™t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!”
“... France is the genius among nations.”
“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”

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