Byung-Chul Han Quotes

Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified.

Often what is absent has more power than what is present.

Rituals are symbolic acts. They represent, and pass on, the values and orders on which a community is based. They bring forth a community without communication; today, however, communication without community prevails.

...Zen Buddhism, this religion of immanence.

Happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity.

The smartphone seems to be a playground, but it is a digital panopticon.

Information has no scent.

The eros-driven soul produces beautiful things, and, above all, beautiful actions, which have a universal value.

Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself.

Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules.

The 'intense life' advertised by the neoliberal regime is in truth simply a life of intense consumption.

Haikus allow the whole world to appear within things.

Full of gods means full of meaning, full of narration. The world becomes readable, like a picture.

Catastrophic fatality abruptly switches over into salvation.

When power is separated from any communicative context, it becomes naked violence.