Zizek Books Quotes & Sayings

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?' — Reed Hastings

The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I'm writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum physics and so on. That's the only way to survive. Like Lenin. I will use his example. You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel. — Slavoj Zizek

Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile — Oscar Wilde

I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy. — Bob Newhart

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow. — Barbara Jordan

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me. — John Hughes

Someday I'll marry you, Miracle. And maybe someday after that, I'll deserve you. — M. Leighton

In essence, Zizek's procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts and was continually "introducing" the project of transcendental phenomenology. The one thing that has changed is that Zizek is publishing his drafts as he goes. — Adam Kotsko

Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. — James McBride

If you don't want to be a side piece, or a friend with benefits, don't settle for that from any man. — Kristen Proby

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible. — Tom Hayden

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. — Slavoj Zizek