Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchotwas a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 September 1907
CountryFrance
foreheads throat seeing
To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
atheist distance thinking
We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.
strength law secret
The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.