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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

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…

— Emmanuel Levinas

“A fine risk is always something to be taken in philosophy. ... Philosophy thus arouses a drama between philosophers and an intersubjective movement which…

— Emmanuel Levinas

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to…

— Emmanuel Levinas

“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.”

— Emmanuel Lévinas

Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the…

— Emmanuel Levinas

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

— Emmanuel Levinas

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

— Emmanuel Levinas

“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry…

— Emmanuel Levinas

“the "small goodness" from one person to his fellowman is lost and deformed as soon as it seeks organization and universality and system, as…

— Emmanuel Levinas