Michel Serres Quotes

#1. Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

Michel Serres

#2. Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy

Michel Serres

#3. if you'd like, i can show you the trophy case on the way out so you can bask in the achievements of the alumni who are now old enough to be suffering from erectile dysfunction, memory loss, and death.

John Green

#4. The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

Antoni Tapies

#5. Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

Brene Brown

#6. You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?

Michel Serres

#7. Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Elihu Root

#8. I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Jennifer Weiner

#9. Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Michel Serres

#10. Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

#11. I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Ian Somerhalder

#12. A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

Damian Green

#13. My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.

Koji Suzuki

#14. The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Michel Serres

#15. Without faith, there'd be nothing but indifferent material forces at work. It's only when the idea of events having an author is introduced that the universe becomes cruel, as opposed to merely heavy, or fast-moving, or prone to unpredictable acceleration.

Francis Spufford

#16. What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

Michel Serres

#17. The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#18. Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged.

Elie Wiesel