Quote by Raoul Vaneigem
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since

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

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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

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Industry
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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

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Dreams
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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

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positive
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge. – Confucius

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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. – Jean Piaget

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. – Francis H. Bradley

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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed. – Edgar Dale

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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. – James Joyce

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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge took a year to record thats why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. Balance, on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate. – Eddie Van Halen

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