the possibilist

“…the constant fluttering around the single fame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that almost nothing is more incomprehensible than how an honest and pure urge for truth could make its appearance among men.”

“Order is, at one and the same time, that which is given in things as their inner law, the hidden network that determines the way they confront one another, and also that which has no existence except in the grid created by a glance, an examination, a language; and it is only in the blank spaces of this grid that order manifests itself in depth as though already there, waiting in silence for the moment of its expression.”

“…by forbidding reason any claim to the absolute, the end of metaphysics has taken the form of an exacerbated return of the religious…the end of ideologies has taken the form of an unqualified victory of religiosity.”

“If you want a revolution a good start would not be protests in the streets or critiques of ideology or even Badiouian truth-procedures, but quietly making internet, satellite, cable, and cell phone reception readily available in regions where these things aren’t available.”

“No people despairs; and even if for a long time its hope is based only on stupidity, after many years all its pious wishes are fulfilled by a sudden intelligence.”

“Philosophy is a reflection for which all unknown material is good, and we would gladly say, for which all good material must be unknown.”