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Emmanuel Levinas
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced.”
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

Emmanuel Levinas
“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.”
Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

Simone Weil
“Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Simone Weil
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Simone Weil
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
Simone Weil

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