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Jean-Luc Nancy Quotes on Life

Jean-Luc Nancy was a French philosopher whose work extended the heritage of Heidegger and Derrida into an original thinking of community, the body, and shared existence. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:

    “Being is being-with.”

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:

    “Community is not lost; it is always already happening.”

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:

    “The body is not a sign; it is the very space of meaning.”

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Nancy:

    “Sense is the dimension along which we exist with one another.”