Raoul Vaneigem

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#power #purchase #purchasing #purchasing power

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

#banal #been #essentially #everything #few

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#life #man #more #philosophies #than

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#large number #means #merely #nowadays #number

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

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#being #could #greatest #greatest pleasure #i

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#die #dying #entails #guarantee #risk

Work is the opposite of creativity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#opposite #work

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#consume #consuming #cycle #hellish #survive

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#each #instructions #key #us #within