10+ Emmanuel Levinas Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Emmanuel Levinas quotes and sayings.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. — 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, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved. — 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 further intentions behind it... it is a good will. — Emmanuel Levinas

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

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

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being? — Emmanuel Levinas

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future. — Emmanuel Levinas

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté. — Emmanuel Levinas

For others, in spite of myself, from myself. — Emmanuel Levinas

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