Giorgio Agamben

"The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception becomes permanent."

"To know oneself means to know what one is capable of doing and what one is incapable of doing."

"The relationship between law and life is one of profound ambiguity."

"Every act of creation is an act of destruction of what was thought to be established."

"The gesture is not an action; it is the exhibition of an action."

"What defines humanity is not reason alone, but the capacity to be abandoned by reason."

"The state of exception is not a space devoid of law; rather, it is a zone of indifference."

"To be human means to be suspended between what is and what is not."

"Language is the house of being, but we are homeless in our own language."

"The spectacular is the mask of modern power."

"Beauty emerges not from perfection, but from the fractures in perfection."

"What we call experience is often nothing more than the forgetting of what we thought we knew."

"The archive is not what preserves the past; it is what determines how the past can be thought."

"To study philosophy is to study how we have been excluded from ourselves."

"The sacred is what emerges when the profane is interrupted."

"Every gesture contains within it the possibility of its own negation."

"Power operates most effectively when it remains invisible."

"The human is that which cannot be thought outside of language."

"What we call freedom is often nothing more than the acceptance of necessity."

"The work of art is the space where meaning is both created and destroyed."

"To live is to be perpetually suspended between birth and death."

"The exception reveals the rule; the rule exists only through the exception."

"Memory is not the preservation of the past; it is the continual remaking of the past."

"The camp is the hidden truth of modernity."

"Language does not belong to us; we belong to language."

"To be alive means to be caught between order and chaos."

"The gesture is what remains when meaning has been exhausted."

"What we inherit from the past determines what we can hope for in the future."

"The profane is not the opposite of the sacred; it is the sacred in a different form."

"The state of exception has become the rule in modern politics."