Michel Serres quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.”
-- Michel Serres

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“Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.”
-- Michel Serres

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

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“Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.”

“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”

“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation

“(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!”

“For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.”

“Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...”

“Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'”

“When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.”

“I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.”

“He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.”