Slavoj Zizek Quotes on Truth
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals working in the broadly Hegelian and Lacanian tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Slavoj Zizek on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
Introduction: The Missing Ink", in Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (2002), p. 2 -
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“Love is not idealization; love is the loved one in his or her ordinary, accidental being.”
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Attributed to Slavoj Zizek:
“The function of ideology is not to offer us a point of escape from our reality but to offer us social reality itself as an escape.”
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Attributed to Slavoj Zizek:
“The truly difficult thing is not to dream of a better world; the truly difficult thing is to wake up.”