Quotes from 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.

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

No tienes nada, no puedes tener ni retener nada, y he aquí lo que necesitas amar y saber. He aquí lo que corresponde a un saber de amor. Ama lo que se te escapa, ama a aquel que se va. Ama que se vaya

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

No por nada el perro y el gato se tienden furiosos el uno contra el otro. Son dos formas de pasión que se desafían gruñendo

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.