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.

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.

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

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.