Emmanuel Levinas Quotes

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

Emmanuel Levinas

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
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• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.

  

  R. T. Rybak
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• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Books
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• My mother read me biblical stories at night.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Mother
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• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • American
  • Humanity

• He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

  

  Chanakya
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • May

• My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Art
  • Judge

• The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

  

  Travis Tritt
  • Writing
  • House
  • Dog

• Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Red

• I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Attention
  • Jesus

• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Free

• Emotional abuse is much more than verbal abuse. Emotional abuse can be defined as any nonphysical behavior that is designed to control, intimidate, subjugate, demean, punish, or isolate another person through the use of degradation, humiliation, or fear.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Fear
  • Behavior
  • Punish

• As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Believe
  • Helping
  • Needed

• If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Sins
  • Degrades
  • Animal Nature

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

  

  Emmanuel Levinas
  • Reason
  • Miracle
  • Degrees