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Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

1934–2026 Belgium

Raoul Vaneigem (21 March 1934 – 28 July 2026) was a Belgian writer and activist known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life, which subsequently influenced the student led French protests of May 1968.

Belgium
Philosophers

Also known as: The Revolution of Everyday Life

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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

The history of our time calls to mind those cartoon characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it: the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in midair, but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

Enlightenment philosophy accelerated the descent into the concrete, for the concrete was in some ways brought to power along with the revolutionary bourgeois. From the ruins of Heaven, humanity fell into the ruins of its own world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Raoul Vaneigem (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.