Quotes from Emmanuel Levinas

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.