From Spinoza I learned that we have two ways of considering things: the way we see them in God, as eternal; and the way we know them in space and time, limited, finite, as if cut off from God. But truly to love someone means seeing them simultaneously in God and in time. The tenderness and shadow of their existing here and now – the amber and crystal of their being in God.
— Agamben (via here)
Notes from a Room 