The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

- Emmanuel Levinas

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

- Emmanuel Levinas

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

- Emmanuel Levinas

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

- Emmanuel Levinas

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 …

- Emmanuel Levinas

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

- Emmanuel Levinas

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

- Emmanuel Levinas

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, …

- Emmanuel Levinas

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.…

- Emmanuel Levinas