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Jean-Luc Marion Quotes on Love

Jean-Luc Marion is a French philosopher and theologian, a major figure in contemporary phenomenology, and a leading interpreter of Descartes. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean-Luc Marion on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Marion:

    “Does anyone love me?”

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Marion:

    “God gives Himself to be thought outside of being.”

  • Attributed to Jean-Luc Marion:

    “Love does not have to be in order to give itself.”

  • “What if God did not have first to be, since he loved us first, when we were not? And what if, to envisage him, we did not have to wait for him within the horizon of Being, but rather transgress ourselves in risking to love love.”

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