What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? Michel Serres More Quotes by Michel Serres More Quotes From Michel Serres Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. Michel Serres boat shipwreck adventure 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 wish feelings mean You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears? Michel Serres tears eye looks Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates. Michel Serres smell hearing sight The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word. Michel Serres language philosophy Mining needs a revolution to avoid retention or employment issues, working with stone-age technologies is not sexy for technicians or engineers coming out of school. Michel Serres environment
