We don't really want what we think we desire.
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“We don't really want what we think we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek
― Slavoj Žižek
Triggered by thephilosophyquote on Instagram:
As quoted on Goodreads and BigThink:
“We don't really want to get what we think that we want.
I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.
You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation.
It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.
This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function.
We don't really want what we think we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek
― Slavoj Žižek
Related:
"I've learned that what we want is seldom what we need, and what we need is almost never what we want."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
― Bertrand Russell
― Bertrand Russell
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