"An absence of meaning opens a gap in…" — Michel de Certeau

"An absence of meaning opens a gap in time."

— Michel de Certeau

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24 Quotes by Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion…
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks…
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded…
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless…
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of…
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most…
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become…
As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as…

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More Absence Quotes

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me… — Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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