Jean-Luc Nancy quotes
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“There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.”
-- Jean-Luc NancySource : Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). “Being Singular Plural”, p.2, Stanford University Press
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“Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?”
-- Jean-Luc NancySource : Jean-Luc Nancy (2009). “Listening”, p.10, Fordham University Press
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“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”
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“Our future is our sense of common destiny.”
Source : "We in Turkey and the Middle East have replaced humiliation with dignity" by Ahmet Davutoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
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