François Jullien > Quotes

“At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.”
― François Jullien, The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China

“a aquello que se ha aprendido, a la par que se sigue aprendiendo—”
― François Jullien, La china da que pensar

“Por otra parte, tratar lo diverso de las culturas en términos de diferencia conducirá a querer aislarlas y a fijarlas en su identidad.”
― François Jullien, No hay identidad cultural

“What remains, in fact? What else is there still right in front of us but the grass which grows and the mountains which erode, bodies which become heavy and faces which become emaciated, life which fecundates, or becomes exhausted, or rather which, while fecundating, is already starting to become exhausted? And vague expectations that crystallize into feverish passion, or else meetings that become less frequent. Or amorous complicities which, without being confessed, turn into relations of power? Or heroic revolutions which (without our being able to locate when) mutate into the privileges of the Party? Or else the wounds of yesterday which are displaced, buried and condensed, and then transcribe themselves into encrypted representation of dreams - and works which ripen in silence?”
― François Jullien, The Silent Transformations