"Memory as an inversion of historical time is……" — Emmanuel Levinas
"Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority."
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9 Quotes by Emmanuel Levinas
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The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But…
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If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.
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Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
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For others, in spite of myself, from myself.
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Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is…
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I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I…
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Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we…
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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