"Grains de sable ? Sans doute, des atomes; il est clair que si ces atomes étaient déjà organisés, ce ne serait pas l'avenir, ce serait le présent; alors, il n'y aurait pas besoin de prévoir, il suffirait de voir. Quand on dit prévoir, il e…
"Why describe the homogenesis of ontological referents - and, by extension, the latent homogenesis of other modalities of subjectivation - as chaotic? It's because, all things considered, worlding a complexion of sense always involves taki…
"What characterises compassion, however, is that its accesses are not determined by the suffering object's individual qualities, but just simply by the witnessed suffering itself...Here it is not a question of what the other suffers, but o…
"Sans doute, en toute occasion, ceux qui ordonnent sont moins nombreux que ceux qui obéissent. Mais, précisément parce qu’ils sont peu nombreux, ils forment un ensemble. Les autres, précisément parce qu’ils sont trop nombreux, sont un plus…
"Although it might not be impossible, yet it would be difficult to find true friendship in a tyrant; elevated above others and having no companions, he finds himself already beyond the pale of friendship, which receives its real sustenance…
"'But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!'" (Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.)「でも、もう役に立たないじゃない」とかわいそうな…
In revising my essay on Zola for resubmission, I finally realized that my mistake is to assume that my readers are not simply more knowledgeable than me in every possible way, but also aware of all the connections and intersections I do no…
「罪とは人がもう一人の人間の人生の上を通過しながら、自分がそこに残した痕跡を忘れることだった。[Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.]」(遠藤周作『沈黙』[Sh…
"Genuine dialectics does not justify the errors of individuals, but studies the inevitable turns, proving that they were inevitable by a detailed study of the process of development in all its concreteness. One of the basic principles of d…
At 3:45 AM, drinking whiskey, ripping CDs, listening to Mahler's Ninth symphony conducted by Hermann Scherchen, and editing my translation of Berkman's Prison Memoir. In short, I'm doing the same thing, regardless of where I'm.
"It is not to be imagined that reason can ever be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals.” (Eckermann. Conversations with Goethe.) 「理性がいつの日かポピ…
"...la nostalgie n'a rien d'un sentiment esthétique, elle n'est même pas liée non plus au souvenir d'un bonheur, on est nostalgique d'un endroit simplement parce qu'on y a vécu, bien ou mal peu importe..." (Houellebecq. Soumission.) 「……ノ…
"I believe in aristocracy, though--if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to…