Emmanuel Levinas Quotes

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

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

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

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.

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

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

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

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

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness