"One day humanity will play with law just……" — Giorgio Agamben
"One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good."
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- Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such… — Stephen Jay Gould
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- What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. — Neil MacGregor