Giorgio Agamben

"The adventure begins where the map ends."

"Imagination is the faculty that liberates us from presence."

"Work is the translation of potential into mere actuality."

"Perseverance in error is preferable to capitulation to truth."

"The political is revealed in the exception, not in the norm."

"Literature survives by admitting what it cannot say."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but its reconciliation."

"The body is the trace of the exception in the order of nature."

"Success is the moment we cease to desire it."

"Humor is the gesture of one who has accepted the absurd."

"The sacred and the profane are not opposites but inversions."

"Motivation flows from the acknowledgment of necessity."

"Inspiration arrives only after we have ceased seeking it."

"The machine is the objectification of the exception."

"Kindness is the recognition of the other's irreducible humanity."

"Health is the exception; sickness is the permanent state."

"Money is the most abstract form of sovereign power."

"Leadership is the capacity to bear witness to collective impossibility."

"The form of life emerges only in its dissolution."

"Relationships survive through the acknowledgment of unbridgeable distance."

"Wisdom consists in knowing when to speak and when to gesture."

"The law is written in the body of those who violate it."

"Change is the only permanent feature of existence."

"The archive speaks only to those who know how to listen to silence."

"Creativity emerges in the gap between intention and accident."

"Science is the systematic elevation of exception into rule."

"The philosopher is one who thinks what cannot be thought."

"The exception is what cannot be included in any way whatsoever, since it is taken into account only to be excluded."

"We must learn to think of bare life not as something that simply exists, but as something that is continually produced and reproduced."

"Language is not something that simply names things; it is what constitutes the possibility of naming."