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Man calls himself man only by drawing limits excluding his other from the play of supplementarity:

At the opposite pole to this nature of darkness, madness also exerts a fascination because it is…

Wisdom, like all precious materials, must be ripped from the entrails of the earth.

If we add to this horror the ecstatic rapture, which rises up out of the same collapse of the…

At first, like everyone, I liked the effects of light intoxication. Very soon, I liked that which…

The term ‘according to nature’ is applied to all these things and also to the attributes which…

From what has been said, then, it is plain that nature in the primary and strict sense is the…

...that nature is a source or cause of being moved and of being at rest in that to which it belongs…

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Chance [noun]: the unknown and unpredictable element that causes an event to result in a certain…

Nothing which is and becomes can be or become without the simultaneous being and becoming of…

In ancient Greek religion, Ananke (Aνάγκη, "force, constraint, necessity") is the personification…

EXPENDABLE … - designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed … - to expend (verb):

Eccentric (adj.) : Whose center does not coincide with a given point. Who is in opposition to the…

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy…

J’ose bien dire que, s’il n’y avait point de vide, il n’y aura point de mouvement, ou il faut…

Et je vois que ce ne sont pas les corps qui donnent l’unité au monde car le monde est composé de…

Excess produces virtuality and surplus produces potentiality.

Je participe à cette sollicitation du plein par le vide, à cette multiple insinuation de la mer…

The notion of virtuality, therefore, assures a cohering and joining function between the two…

Eccentricity, necessarily appears in a negative form: stupidity, deformity, madness, illegitimacy…