Giorgio Agamben

Philosopher, Political Theorist Italian Born 1942 (age 84)

Analyzes states of exception and political power.

378 quotes

"Strength lies in acknowledging vulnerability."
Strength
"Fear is the beginning of understanding."
Fear
"Money is congealed time."
Money
"Health is the state of accepting imperfection."
Health
"Adventure requires losing yourself."
Adventure
"Technology estranges us from our own nature."
Technology
"War is the normal state of politics."
War
"Perseverance is submission to what cannot be changed."
Perseverance
"Gratitude acknowledges the gift of existence."
Gratitude
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but its transformation."
Peace
"Nature speaks in the language we refuse to hear."
Nature
"Music reveals what words cannot express."
Music
"Faith is the belief in what cannot be proven."
Faith
"Leadership is the ability to bear the weight of decision."
Leadership
"Work alienates us from our own potential."
Work
"Dreams are where the impossible becomes thinkable."
Dreams
"Humor masks the absurdity of existence."
Humor
"Success is the price of forgetting who you were."
Success
"Happiness is the rare moment of non-thinking."
Happiness
"Change begins when we stop expecting it."
Change
"Education is the construction of docile subjects."
Education
"Friendship is love without possession."
Friendship
"Family is where we learn to obey."
Family
"Hope is the worst of evils."
Hope
"Courage is the refusal to submit to necessity."
Courage
"The image precedes reality in modern life."
Technology
"We are living in the age of the spectacle."
Politics
"Being is what is most hidden from us."
Philosophy
"The law exists to preserve its own exceptions."
Justice
"Meaning emerges from the gaps between words."
Philosophy