Byung-Chul Han Quotes
born 1959 South Korea
Byung-Chul Han is a South Korean-born Swiss-German philosopher and cultural theorist. He was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and still occasionally gives courses there.
- South Korea
- Academics
- Non-fiction authors
87 quotes
"The pornographic face says nothing. It has no expressivity or mystery."
"Money, as a matter of principle, makes everything the same."
"The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom."
"Haikus allow the whole world to appear within things."
"Pornography completes the deritualization of love."
"God is nothingness: He is 'beyond all speech.'"
"Without narration, life is purely additive."
"Historical time knows no lasting present."
"Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules."
"A farewell does not dilute the presence of the past; it may make an even deeper presence."
"Promising, committment, and fidelity, for instance, are genuinely temporal practices."
"Whatever is merely positive is lifeless. Negativity is essential to vitality."
"The liturgy of emptiness dispels the capitalist economy of the commodity."
"It is not honourable to attack an enemy without putting yourself at risk."
"Sabbath rest does not follow creation; it brings creation to completion."
"The smartphone seems to be a playground, but it is a digital panopticon."
"Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself."
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Byung-Chul Han (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.