Top 29 Best Levinas Quotes
#1. Levinas's thought emphasizes not the primacy of the self, but the primacy of the other - that is, other human beings. He taught that the self comes into existence
Ira F. Stone
#2. What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Emmanuel Levinas
#3. Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
Idries Shah
#4. A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
Emmanuel Levinas
#5. Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi
#6. The rabbit was not domesticated until early medieval times (it was bred by French monks in the belief that newborn bunnies were fish and therefore exempt from the prohibitions against eating meat on certain days in the Church calendar);
Carl Sagan
#7. Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it ... it is a good will.
Emmanuel Levinas
#8. The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.
Emmanuel Levinas
#9. We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.
Emmanuel Levinas
#10. At the very moment when the world seems to break up we still take it seriously and perform reasonable acts and undertakings, the condemned man still drinks his glass of rum. To call it everyday and condemn it as inauthentic is to fail to recognize the sincerity of hunger and thirst
Emmanuel Levinas
#11. If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.
Emmanuel Levinas
#12. Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.
Emmanuel Levinas
#13. Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness
Emmanuel Levinas
#14. Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.
Marlon Brando
#15. Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Elbert Hubbard
#16. What is the good of religion without personal spiritual direction?
Thomas Merton
#17. It's all my fault! Everything is my fault and no one knows it more than me. We're all in hell and I'm the one that put us here.
Katja Millay
#18. The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.
Emmanuel Levinas
#19. Tools refer to one another to finally refer to our care for existing. In turning on a bathroom switch, we open up the entire ontological problem
Emmanuel Levinas
#20. I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
Daniel Pennac
#22. I wish he wouldn't do this when he's on me. It's really very upsetting.
Tamora Pierce
#23. The poet is individual - he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.
Walt Whitman
#24. I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?
Sepp Blatter
#25. Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Emmanuel Levinas
#27. I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
Blake Shelton
#29. We do not believe in order to be regenerated; we must be regenerated in order that we might believe.
Keith Mathison
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