Humorous Sayings

6,846 sayings found from the Contemporary era

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

— Jacques Derrida 1970s-1990s (approximate)
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No, only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully.

— Jacques Derrida 2002 (film release)
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Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

— Jacques Derrida 1967 (Of Grammatology), or later
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If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

— Jacques Derrida 1970s-1990s (approximate)
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I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

— Jacques Derrida 1996
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

— Jacques Derrida 1980s-1990s (approximate)
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What can look at itself is not one; and the law of the addition of the origin to its representation, or the thing to its image, is that one plus one makes at least three.

— Jacques Derrida 1967
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The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.

— Jacques Derrida 1994
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

— Jacques Derrida 1970s-1990s (approximate)
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I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous… Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

— Jurgen Habermas 1993 (book publication)
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Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

— Slavoj Zizek 2012
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If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s-2010s (approximate)
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I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology.

— Slavoj Zizek 2012 (documentary release)
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Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s-2010s (approximate)
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I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing—I cannot tell you how much.

— Slavoj Zizek 2010s (approximate)
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The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?

— Slavoj Zizek 2010s (approximate)
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We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

— Slavoj Zizek 2002
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I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery just to fuck you forever.

— Slavoj Zizek 2010s (approximate)
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If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s-2010s (approximate)
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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

— Slavoj Zizek 2006 (documentary release)
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