Essence Quote by Emmanuel Levinas Download Open image “Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.” — Emmanuel Levinas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essence Historical History Inversions Memories Memory Time
“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids, memory organizes consciousness, transforming welter of actual experience into desirable or meaningful events, and these become institutionalized as history. 'Just as memory validates personal identity, history perpetuates collective self-awareness'.” — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.” — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A fine risk is always something to be taken in philosophy. ... Philosophy thus arouses a drama between philosophers and an intersubjective movement which does not resemble the dialogue of teamworkers in science, nor even the Platonic dialogue which is the reminiscence of a drama rather than a drama itself. It is sketched out in a different structure; empirically it… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share
“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which are piled up goods that cannot satisfy: neither clothe those who are naked, nor feed those who are hungry; it is as impersonal as factory hangars and industrial cities in which manufactured things remain abstract, true… — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.” — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“La relación con lo Otro me pone en cuestión, me vacía de mí mismo y no deja de vaciarme, descubriéndome en tal modo con… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being? — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life; — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give it water it will die. If you give it too much water, it will die. So the wisdom lies in understanding how much water should be given to the plant, so that it comes up at its best.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share
This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Emmanuel Levinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83d/emmanuel-levinas-26126_being-loved_i-will-say-this-quite-plainly-what-truly_532817.jpg)
