Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 12, 1906 Death: December 25, 1995
If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other..
The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future..
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority..
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 ….
I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, ….
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved.….
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable..
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté..
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it..
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?.
For others, in spite of myself, from myself..