The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their …

- Michel Serres

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

- Michel Serres

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

- Michel Serres

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

- Michel Serres

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

- Michel Serres

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

- Michel Serres