Byung-Chul Han Quotes

Silent listening unites a people and creates community without communication.

Emptiness is not a denial of the proper but an affirmation of it.

An ethos of freedom stops power from solidifying into domination and makes sure it remains an open game.

Psychological disorders are symptoms of a blocked story... The patient is cured the moment she narrates herself free.

Rather, power is most powerful, most stable, where it creates a feeling of freedom and where it does not need to resort to violence.

Architecture is a way for power to achieve eloquence through form.

The erotic is never free of secrecy.

What is obscene about pornography is not an excess of sex, but the fact that it contains no sex at all.

Perhaps power is never free from a feeling of lack.

To die is to wander.

Following Foucault, we may define the art of life as a practice of suicide, of giving oneself to death, of depsychologizing oneself, of playing.

Eros conquers depression.

Without narration, life is purely additive.

*Rituals are also symbolic practices... in the sense that they bring people together to create an alliance, a wholeness, a community."

Money, as a matter of principle, makes everything the same.