Serres Quotes & Sayings

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

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. — Alfred Adler

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

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense. — Dan Savage

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other. — Adam Jones

What I call loaded, I'm not. What other people call loaded I am. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

Would savor this mortal life while I had it, learn and experience all I could. And when it ended, I would take what I had learned and be a more excellent god and make the world better. — Jo Walton