The Puppet and the Dwarf Quotes

“The proper way for the woman to test the man’s love is thus to “betray” him at a crucial moment in his career”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence?”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“True love is precisely the opposite move of forsaking the promise of Eternity itself for an imperfect individual.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence? What if God's descent to man, far from being an act of grace toward humanity, is the only way for God to gain full actuality, and to liberate Himself from the suffocating constraints of Eternity? What if God actualizes Himself only through human recognition?

We have to get rid of the old Platonic topos of love as Eros that gradually elevates itself from love for a particular individual, through love for the beauty of a human body in general and the love of the beautiful form as such, to love for the supreme Good beyond all forms: true love is precisely the opposite move of forsaking the promise of Eternity itself for an imperfect individual.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“Paganism is the ultimate Christian dream.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“My claim here is not merely that I am a materialist through and through, and that the subversive kernel of Christianity is accessible also to a materialist approach; my thesis is much stronger: this kernel is accessible only to a materialist approach—and vice versa: to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“in short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity