Love is never directed toward this or that property of the loved one (being blond, being small, being tender, being lame), but neither does it neglect the properties in favor of an insipid generality (universal love): The lover wants the loved one with all of its predicates, its being such as it is.
— Agamben, The Coming Community.
“The meaning of ethics becomes clear only when one understands that the good is not, and cannot be, a good thing or possibility beside or above every bad thing or possibility, that the authentic and the true are not real predicates of an object perfectly analogous (even if opposed) to the false and the inauthentic. Ethics begins only when the good is revealed to consist in nothing other than a grasping of evil and when the authentic and the proper have no other content than the inauthentic and the improper…Truth cannot be shown except by showing the false, which is not, however, cut off and cast aside somewhere else. On the contrary…truth is revealed only by giving space or giving a place to non-truth–that is, as a taking-place of the false, as an exposure of its own innermost impropriety”