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
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• 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
  • Up
  • Faith

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

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

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • People
  • God
  • Mistakes

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

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• 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
  • Fiction

• My mother read me biblical stories at night.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Me

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• 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

• Time has always been very important in my work.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Family
  • Why
  • She

• 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

• Stand a little less between me and the sun.

  

  Diogenes
  • Sun

• 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

• Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Build
  • Slopes

• If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Man
  • Woman
  • In Love

• It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Kind
  • Sometimes
  • Miracle

• 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