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Emmanuel Levinas
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“If every pure character in the Old Testament announces the Messiah, if every unworthy person is his torturer and every woman his Mother, does not the Book of Books lose all life with this obsessive theme?”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Persons or Figures (1950)
“To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Religion for Adults (1957)
“The moral consciousness can sustain the mocking gaze of the political man only if the certitude of peace dominates the evidence of war. Such a certitude is not obtained by a simple play of antitheses. The peace of empires issued from war rests on war. It does not restore to the alienated beings their lost identity. For that a primordial and original relation with being is needed.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Totality and Infinity (1961)
“The comprehension of God taken as a participation in his sacred life, an allegedly direct comprehension, is impossible, because participation is a denial of the divine, and because nothing is more direct than the face to face, which is straightforwardness itself.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Totality and Infinity (1961)
“The transition of the subject-object relation to that of the I-Thou implies a passage of consciousness to a new sphere of existence, viz, the interval, betweenness or Zwischen; and this is a passage from thought to Umfassung.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear for the Other, fear for the other man's death is my fear, but is in no way an individual's taking fright.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The detour to ideality leads to coinciding with oneself, that is, to certainty, which remains the guide and guarantee of the whole spiritual adventure of being.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mores I return to myself, the more I divest myself, under the traumatic effect of persecution , of my freedom as a constituted, wilful, imperialistic subject, the more I discover myself to be responsible' the more just I am, the more guilty I am. I am 'in myself' through others.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ego involved in responsibility is me and no one else, me with whom one whould have liked to pair up a sister soul, from whom one would have substitution and sacrifice.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The theory of transparency was set up in reaction to the theory of mental images, of an inner tableu which the perception of an object would leave in us. In imagination our gaze always goes outward, but imagination modifies and neutralizes the gaze: the real world appears in it as it were between parenthesis or quote marks.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be or not to be is not the question where transcendence is concerned. The statement of being's other, of the otherwise than being, claims to state a difference over and beyond that which separates being from nothingness — the very difference of the beyond, the difference of transcendence.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence (1974) Chapter I, Section 1.
“By asserting the objectivity of the physical world, naturalism identifies the existence and the conditions of existence of the physical world with existence and the conditions of existence in general. It forgets that the world of the physicist necessarily refers back, through its intrinsic meaning, through the subjective world which one tries to exclude from reality as being pure appearance, conditioned by the empirical nature of man, which is incapable of reaching directly to a world of things in themselves. But while the world of the physicist claims to go beyond naive experience, his world really exists only in relation to naive experience.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Theory Of Intuition In Husserls Phenomenology 1963, 1995 p. 9