Emmanuel Levinas Quotes

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 loved.

Emmanuel Levinas

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• Mean
• Worry
• Lust
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• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Future
  • Past
  • Taken

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Love
  • Being
  • Courtroom

• I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Gay
  • Comfortable

• Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Friends
  • City

• The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Future
  • Going
  • How

• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Forever
  • Fierce

• I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Spiritual

• I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • School
  • Hand

• The whole working-in-an-office thing was a dream for me - I never get to do it! I'm secretly very organised and obsessed with stationery, especially staplers and post-its, which I know is a little weird.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Dream
  • Weird

• In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Country
  • Snow

• All great players want to be the reason the team wins.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Great
  • Team

• I make Eric pick up from this little local place in Nashville that has really good honey whole wheat bread. It's near where he works out in the morning, so I make him pick up a loaf, and the kids eat it, too. I'll just keep passing out toast all morning. The kids just walk around with crumbs everywhere; we don't care.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • School
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Work
  • Fun

• The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.

  

  Jason Winston George
  • Time

• I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Small
  • Waiting

• The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Person

• If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Together
  • Perish
  • Surely

• We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Worry
  • Poverty

• Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Life
  • Great
  • Food

• 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 loved.

  

  Emmanuel Levinas
  • Responsibility
  • Mean
  • Worry