Giorgio Agamben

"The past is never past."

"We inherit what we do not choose."

"The body remembers what the mind forgets."

"To write is to leave traces of disappearance."

"Reading is an act of resistance."

"Philosophy begins in perplexity."

"Knowledge is always incomplete."

"The sacred hides in the profane."

"Violence is the founding act of every order."

"Motivation dies where meaning is absent."

"Inspiration comes from the depths of forgetting."

"Relationships are where we confront ourselves."

"The present is always already contaminated by the past."

"Being human means being incomplete."

"Judgment suspends understanding."

"The archive is where history becomes power."

"We live in the suspended moment of decision."

"Art is the testimony of what cannot be said."

"Science reduces the world to what can be measured."

"Music is the language of non-knowledge."

"Faith requires the suspension of reason."

"Power creates the boundaries of the possible."

"Poverty is not the absence of money but of dignity."

"Health is the unreflective state."

"Adventure is the loss of direction."

"Technology is the apotheosis of calculation."

"History repeats itself as farce and tragedy."

"Philosophy is the endless questioning of the obvious."

"Literature preserves what cannot be lived."

"Politics is the art of the possible."