Emmanuel Levinas Quotes

#1. If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

Emmanuel Levinas

#2. What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

Emmanuel Levinas

#3. Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.

Shelby Harris

#4. Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of friends. Gay sisters-in-law. Gay suspects. I ask one guy for a kiss and suddenly I'm living in Ancient Greece.

Dani Alexander

#5. A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Emmanuel Levinas

#6. Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

Ellen Datlow

#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. Bite your teeth into the ass of life.

Ian Holm

#11. 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

#12. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.

Alessandra Torre

#13. Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Emmanuel Levinas

#14. 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

#15. I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote ... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Shiloh Walker

#16. Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

J.D. Robb

#17. Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

James E. Faust

#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. Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

Emmanuel Levinas

#21. Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

#22. For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Emmanuel Levinas