Philosophy Quotes

"The ethical is the political only when it has betrayed itself."

"To be is to be for the other."

"The face is the first language, preceding all words."

"The infinite is what escapes my totality and makes me responsible."

"Transcendence is the possibility of exceeding the present."

"To be human is to be troubled by the other's suffering."

"The ethical relation is the relation to infinity."

"Being is never neutral; it is always already ethical."

"Desire is the transcendence that cannot be satisfied or reduced."

"The other breaks into my world without my permission."

"To speak is already to have recognized the other."

"The infinity of the other cannot be filled or completed."

"The face is the revelation of the other as beyond power."

"The ethical is what binds me when I am most free."

"Being is not independent but always responsive to the other."

"The other's vulnerability is the source of all meaning."

"The ethical relation precedes all political and social structures."

"Alterity cannot be integrated into a system without violence."

"The face speaks without words and cannot be ignored."

"To be ethical is to be haunted by the other's absence."

"Being is disrupted by the ethical relation with the other."

"The infinite is not a concept but an ethical orientation."

"The human being is not a fixed essence but a process of becoming through dialogue with others."

"The task of philosophy is to speak the unspeakable."

"Language is the house in which being dwells."

"Ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence."

"There is no practice except by and in an ideology."

"Marxism is not a humanism."

"Ideology interpellates individuals as subjects."

"The last instance is never reached."