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
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• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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  • Course
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• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
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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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• I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Racism
  • Economics

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

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
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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
  • 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
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• 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

• I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Work
  • Men
  • Emotional

• The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Ideas
  • Ignorance
  • Tradition

• A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Why
  • Dying
  • Impression

• Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Services
  • Arrest

• Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High))

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Live
  • Why
  • High

• The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

  

  Samuel Smiles
  • Reason
  • Little
  • Attempted

• 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