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Top 10 Michel Serres Quotes (2025 Update)

Michel Serres Quote: “Voyaging begins when one burns one’s boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.”

1. “Voyaging begins when one burns one’s boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.”

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

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

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

3. “The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.”

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

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

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

5. “Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “We no longer live addicted to speech; having lost our senses, now we are going to lose language, too. We will be addicted to data, naturally. Not data that comes from the world, or from language, but encoded data. To know is to inform oneself. Information is becoming our primary and universal addiction.”

6. “We no longer live addicted to speech; having lost our senses, now we are going to lose language, too. We will be addicted to data, naturally. Not data that comes from the world, or from language, but encoded data. To know is to inform oneself. Information is becoming our primary and universal addiction.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “The body receives gratuity. The world gives graciously, disinterestedly, asking for nothing back, expecting nothing in return; it has no scales, no balance sheet. Our senses cede nothing in return for it, can give nothing back to the source of given beauties. What could the eye give back to the sun, or the palate to the vines of Yquem?”

7. “The body receives gratuity. The world gives graciously, disinterestedly, asking for nothing back, expecting nothing in return; it has no scales, no balance sheet. Our senses cede nothing in return for it, can give nothing back to the source of given beauties. What could the eye give back to the sun, or the palate to the vines of Yquem?”

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Michel Serres Quote: “Nothing is constructed, made or invented, except in relative peace, in a small, rare pocket of local peace maintained in the middle of the universal devastation produced by perpetual war.”

8. “Nothing is constructed, made or invented, except in relative peace, in a small, rare pocket of local peace maintained in the middle of the universal devastation produced by perpetual war.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “What is the good of power and precision if the price we pay is ugliness and death? What is the good of thinking, if we have no idea how to live?”

9. “What is the good of power and precision if the price we pay is ugliness and death? What is the good of thinking, if we have no idea how to live?”

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Michel Serres Quote: “With their cell phone, they have access to all people; with GPS, to all places; with the Internet, to all knowledge. They inhabit a topological space of neighborhoods, whereas we lived in a metric space, coordinated by distances.”

10. “With their cell phone, they have access to all people; with GPS, to all places; with the Internet, to all knowledge. They inhabit a topological space of neighborhoods, whereas we lived in a metric space, coordinated by distances.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “Faced with these mutations, we no doubt need to be invent-ing unimaginable novelties, far outside the obsolete frameworks that still format our behaviors, our medias, and our projects – all of which are being drowned in the society of the spectacle.”

11. “Faced with these mutations, we no doubt need to be invent-ing unimaginable novelties, far outside the obsolete frameworks that still format our behaviors, our medias, and our projects – all of which are being drowned in the society of the spectacle.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “We adults have transformed our society of the spectacle into a pedagogical society whose overwhelming competition, willfully ignorant, has eclipsed the school and the university. The media long ago took over the function of teaching – the time when one hears and sees, the time of seduction and consequence.”

12. “We adults have transformed our society of the spectacle into a pedagogical society whose overwhelming competition, willfully ignorant, has eclipsed the school and the university. The media long ago took over the function of teaching – the time when one hears and sees, the time of seduction and consequence.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “Undergo the quiet treatment of the five senses. It is enough to accept what is gratuitously given.”

13. “Undergo the quiet treatment of the five senses. It is enough to accept what is gratuitously given.”

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Michel Serres Quote: “Gradually, however, knowledge became objectivized, first in scrolls or on pieces of vellum or parchment, which were the supports of writing; then, during the Renaissance, in books made out of paper, which found their support in the printing press; and finally, today, on the web, which is the support of email messages and information.”

14. “Gradually, however, knowledge became objectivized, first in scrolls or on pieces of vellum or parchment, which were the supports of writing; then, during the Renaissance, in books made out of paper, which found their support in the printing press; and finally, today, on the web, which is the support of email messages and information.”

— Michel Serres

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