Giorgio Agamben

"The most radical gesture is to affirm life."

"Language is the house of being."

"What is at stake in literature is the transformation of life itself."

"The exception is more interesting than the rule."

"We must learn to think beyond the opposition of life and death."

"State of exception is the rule in modern politics."

"Freedom is only possible where there is time."

"The potential to not-be is what distinguishes human existence."

"Art lies at the intersection of the possible and the impossible."

"To be human means to be capable of your own destruction."

"Knowledge requires the courage to question everything."

"Justice cannot be separated from the question of who deserves rights."

"History is written by those who understand power."

"The state decides who lives and who dies."

"Language speaks us before we speak language."

"Imagination is the faculty through which we become fully human."

"To think is to resist."

"Beauty emerges from the breakdown of certainty."

"Time is the substance of human consciousness."

"Truth hides in what appears most obvious."

"Solitude is the space where thought becomes possible."

"Power operates through the creation of exceptions."

"The archive preserves what cannot be forgotten."

"We are always already in the state of exception."

"Creativity requires breaking with convention."

"The body is the first technology of power."

"Love is the refusal to reduce another to categories."

"Death gives meaning to life."

"Patience is the art of waiting without hope."

"Kindness begins where judgment ends."