Michel Serres Quotes & Sayings

Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy — Michel Serres

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates. — Michel Serres

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? — Michel Serres

You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears? — Michel Serres

The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle. — Michel Serres

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word. — Michel Serres