But my nature is to love.I cannot hate.
Surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief that horse-shoes kept evil spirits away, to which B...
Even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.
«Nosotros somos aquellos a quienes hemos estado esperando»
«Nosotros somos aquellos a quienes hemos estado esperando» no significa que hayamos descubierto que somos el agente predestinado por la suerte (la necesidad histórica) para desempeñar la tarea; signif...
The immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to see, refusing to ‘open your eyes’, as the angry...
One cannot look objectively at oneself and locate oneself in reality; and the task is to think this impossibility itself as an ontological fact, not only as an epistemological limitation. In other wor...
An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.
A truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria...
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and th...
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation,...
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took sla...
The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than himself. Rousseau is describing a precise libidinal mechanism: the inversion which generates the shift of the...
The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead; what he doesn’t know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the b...
Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day pr...
Someone asked Herr Keuner if there is a God. Herr Keuner said: I advise you to think about how your behaviour would change with regard to the answer to this question. If it would not change, then we c...
Portanto, uma nova classe global vem surgindo, com, digamos, passaporte indiano, castelo na Escócia, apartamento em Manhattan e ilha particular no Caribe. O paradoxo é que os membros dessa classe glob...
European civilisation finds it easier to tolerate differ-ent ways of life precisely on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the alienation of social life. O...
There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls in front of him is carefully inspected. The guards can find nothing. It is...
Symptoms are never just secondary failures or distortions of the basically sound System—they are indicators that there is something rotten (antagonistic, inconsistent) in the very heart of the System.