Levinas, Emmanuel

"The Other calls me into question."

"Ethics is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy."

"The face of the Other speaks to me and says: thou shalt not kill."

"Responsibility precedes freedom."

"The encounter with the Other is not a knowing, but a relationship."

"Language is the very event of transcendence."

"The infinite is not something I can comprehend, but something that comprehends me."

"Peace is an adventure beyond being."

"I am responsible for the Other before I am responsible for myself."

"The trace of the infinite is written in the face of the Other."

"To be human is to be obsessed with the Other."

"Hospitality is the openness to the Other."

"The widow, the orphan, and the stranger are the figures of the vulnerable Other."

"We are held hostage by the Other's destitution."

"Teaching is the presence of the infinite in the finite."

"The Other has priority over the Same."

"Justice begins with the obligation to the Other."

"The human is constituted by its relation to alterity."

"Conscience is the call of the infinite."

"Being is not the highest; the ethical relation is."

"The Other's vulnerability makes a claim upon me."

"Subjectivity is not for itself, but for the Other."

"The infinity of the Other exceeds my comprehension."

"I cannot escape responsibility through knowledge."

"The relation to the Other is a relation of desire, not of need."

"Eternity speaks through the Other's face."

"Violence is the attempt to reduce the Other to the Same."

"The ethical relation is anarchic, without origin or foundation."

"To welcome the Other is to welcome the stranger within."

"Language awakens consciousness of the infinite."