Michel Serres Quotes

• Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

  Michel Serres

  Adventure, Boat, Shipwreck

  Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Michel Serres

  Eye, Tears, Looks

  Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Mean, Feelings, Wish

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• Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

  Michel Serres

  Sight, Smell, Hearing

  Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

  Michel Serres

  Philosophy, Language

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

  Michel Serres

  Philosophy, Names, Links

  Michel Serres, Bruno Latour (1995). “Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

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