Top 26 Levinas's 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. Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.
Emmanuel Levinas
#3. What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Emmanuel Levinas
#4. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
Jon Krakauer
#5. A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
Emmanuel Levinas
#6. 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
#7. The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#8. The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.
Emmanuel Levinas
#9. Bye, dear ol' Dad." He smiled. "Bye, my son, my son.
R.J. Palacio
#10. 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
#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. That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?
Shannen Doherty
#14. If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.
Emmanuel Levinas
#15. 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
#16. Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.
Howard Stern
#18. I wouldn't say it was lucky. We executed the play well. We should have had another one (TD). Obviously, if you do what's right on and off the field, I think the Lord steps in and plays a part in it. Magic happens
Austin Collie
#19. You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Jim Bakker
#20. The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.
Emmanuel Levinas
#21. 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
#22. The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
Michael Douglas
#23. Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.
Garth Brooks
#24. Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Emmanuel Levinas
#26. Comfortable; made the courageous weak
Nikki Rowe
