Jean Luc Nancy Quotes

#1. Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
-Soothsayer

KungFuPandaMakers

#2. Design ... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#3. 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 Nancy

#4. Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.

Frances M. Young

#5. If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

Frank Herbert

#6. 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 Nancy

#7. It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.

Columella

#9. It was not until very much in the posterior that I understanded that each of us was laughing for a different reason, for our own reason, and that not on of those reasons had a thing to do with the potato.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. Leaders are made one response at a time.

Andy Stanley

#11. What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the solace of edifying discourses that do nothing but pile on more testimony to its misery.

Jean-Luc Nancy

#12. Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence

Jean-Luc Nancy

#13. There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Bill Hicks

#14. Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer.

Jose Andres

#15. Tom Cullen retraced the killer's steps for his book An Autumn of Terror.

Shirley Harrison