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, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved.
The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future. - Emmanuel Levinas
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
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. - Emmanuel Levinas
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. - Emmanuel Levinas
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
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
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 …
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté. - Emmanuel Levinas
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other. - Emmanuel Levinas
If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.
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
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.… - 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.…
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