Giorgio Agamben

"To think is to be separated from thought."

"The image does not represent reality; it substitutes for reality."

"What makes us human is our capacity to suffer without knowing why."

"The archive is where the past is transformed into power."

"Language is the grave of thoughts that have died."

"The beautiful is what cannot be reduced to utility."

"To exist is to be subject to the law of time."

"The exception is what defines normality, not the reverse."

"What we experience as freedom is often the most subtle form of control."

"The gesture reveals what words conceal."

"Modernity is the age in which bare life has become visible."

"To know something is to be separated from it by knowledge itself."

"The sacred emerges when we approach the limit of language."

"Every work of art contains the possibility of its own destruction."

"What makes life bearable is the forgetting of what makes life unbearable."

"The state is what renders bare life governable."

"Language is what separates us from the animals; it also separates us from ourselves."

"The past is not fixed; it is constantly rewritten by the present."