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. The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

Bette Midler

#4. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

Fiorello H. La Guardia

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

Michel Serres

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

Michel Serres

#7. When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Amelia Barr

#8. The thought makes me angry. I hope the anger burns up all other feelings because it's probably the only thing keeping me on my feet and moving right now.

Susan Ee

#9. At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Helen Hayes

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

Michel Serres

#11. So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.

Dante Alighieri

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

Michel Serres

#13. Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

Sally Kohn