How I will answer all compliments from now on (Slavoj Zizek)

“I did not yet penetrate Nietzsche. I tried with Viagra, with everything.” — Zizek

“Eternally rolls the wheel of Being. Everything dies, everything blooms again; eternally runs the year of Being.” — Nietzsche, TSZ

But to that end there has to be a quality that inspires fear and not, as hitherto, nausea. Hasn't the time come to say of morality what Master Eckhart said: "I ask God to rid me of God."

withdraw the mob's acclaim from them as well as their easy currency; make them once again concealed secrets of solitary souls; say that morality is something forbidden. That way you might win over for these things the kind of people who alone matter: I mean those who are heroic.

Truly, you are masters of alchemy in reverse: the devaluation of what is most valuable. Why don't you make the experiment of trying another prescription to keep from attaining the opposite of your goal as you have done hitherto? Deny these good things,

The way you are going about it, all these good things will eventually have popularity and the clamor of the streets on their side; but at the same time all the gold that was on them will have been worn off by so much handling, and all the gold inside will have turned to lead.

of all honor and worth, then go on talking about them as you have been doing. Place them at the head of your morality and talk from morning to night of the happiness of virtue, the composure of the soul, of justice and immanent retribution.

Kierkegaard: Christendom has long been in need of a hero who, in fear and trembling before God, had the courage to forbid people to read the Bible. That is something quite as necessary as preaching against Christianity Nietzsche: If you wish to deprive the best things and states

Like Lacan and Freud before him, Zizek continues the tradition of hiding the Nietzschean influence

What I like about this lecture is the opposition between Kierkegaard and Kant

Every time I suffer a breakup, I worry that I might never love that way again. And yet every time I love again with great passion and freshness. I owe this to my testicles

I wrestled a man until the breaking of the day. I am dislocated

I hate these relationships where the woman thinks she can just do whatever she wants and the man is not authoritarian enough. The man decided this was funny - who does she think she is?

“There is only one assurance against despair: to undergo the change of eternity by the "shalt" of duty; anyone who has not understood this change is desperate.” — Kierkegaard

There is a harmony in the universe but not as we have conceived it

“You should not confine yourself to just one manner of devotion, since God is to be found in no particular way, neither this nor that. That is why they do Him wrong those who take God in just one particular way. They take the way rather than God.” — Meister Eckhart

Zizek talks about this

Schopenhauer: directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard

God likes his girls sliced open

“Hegel dared to teach that species concepts develop out of each other. With this proposition the minds of Europe were pre-formed for the last great scientific movement, Darwinism—for without Hegel there could have been no Darwin.” — Nietzsche, TGS