"There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being."

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Source : Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). “Being Singular Plural”, p.2, Stanford University Press

Jean-Luc Nancy

#Would Be Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Common Quotes

“I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.”
“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
“Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.”
“The sand dunes look like two tits.”
“I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.”
“As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.”

Source : Gerhard Tersteegen (2008). “The Quiet Way: A Christian Path to Inner Peace”, p.64, World Wisdom, Inc
“There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.”
“Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.”

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