Ray of Truth

New is Started

“With the creation of man, the principle of beginning came into the world. …It is in the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected.” Hannah Arendt The Human Condition

“The most consequent forms of declared atheism will have always testified to the most intense desire for God. …Like mysticism, apophatic discourse has always been suspected of atheism. …If atheism, like apophatic theology, testifies to the desire of God …in the presence of whom does it do so?” Jacques Derrida

The World Attaining Self-Consciousness

“What I mean is that we can see human beings as immanent products of the evolving world, and that in as much as human beings are members of the world, we can conceive the human beings’ knowledge of the world as being in a sense the world’s knowledge it-self, as the world attaining self-consciousness in […]

The Desire of the Other

“If it is merely at the level of the desire of the Other that man can recognize his desire, as desire of the Other, is there not something here that must appear to him to be an obstacle to his fading, which is a point at which his desire can never by recognied? This obstacle […]

Language become Holy Scriptures

“Language which has become Holy Scriptures, and which maintains its prophetic essence—probably language par excellence—the Word of God that is already audible or still muffled in the heart of every act of speech, is not solely a matter of the engagement of speaking beings in the fabric of the world and History, where they are […]

Ghost of the Future

“For the name Eli-jah did not name any single individual, but announced the arrival of another, whose empty place was always set at table. This was Eli-jah: the always super-numerary participant and ghost of the future, without whom no reading could occur, and whose always imminent arrival, as promise or threat, with the one always […]

Monstrosity Comes

“Philosophy can be monstrous, poetry can be monstrous. Whenever such monstrosity comes about, it constitutes an ‘event,’ though this event does not happen in the present: it ‘can only be recognized afterwards.’ Monstrosity belongs, if it can be said to belong, to a time that is out of joint.” J. Derrida

Divine Order of Things

“The abiding law at work in the passage of time: the Hours thus became guardians of the law of Nature, and of the divine order of things whereby the constant recurrence of the same things in unalterable succession in the natural world takes place.” S. Freud

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica