A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.
Zygmunt BaumanYou are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.
Zygmunt BaumanWith globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.
Zygmunt BaumanLev (Lรฉon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.
Zygmunt Bauman