Jean-Luc Nancy Quotes & Sayings

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence — Jean-Luc Nancy

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

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

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