52 Quotes by Byung-Chul Han

According to Ehrenberg, depression spreads when the commandments and prohibitions of disciplinary society yield to self-responsibility and initiative. In reality, it is not the excess of responsibility and initiative that makes one sick, but the imperative to achieve: the new commandment of late-modern labor society.

Love of self is still determined by negativity insofar as it devalues and wards off the Other in favor of the Own.

Un exceso de velocidad destruye el sentido. Una velocidad demasiado baja, en cambio, genera un atasco que impide cualquier movimiento.

Frente a la infinitud del tiempo, la breve vida humana es una nada.

Today, even the so-called immigrant is not an immunological Other, not a foreigner in the strong sense, who poses a real danger or of whom one is afraid. Immigrants and refugees are more likely to be perceived as burdens than as threats.

So long as what is foreign does not attract unwelcome attention, immune defenses ignore it. It follows that the biological immune system is more hospitable than previously assumed. That is, it does not harbor xenophobia. As such, it proves more intelligent than human societies. Xenophobia is a pathologically escalated immunoreaction that proves damaging to one’s own development.

Hojas de flor flotan al viento. Con cada una envejece la rama del ciruelo. BUSON.