Louis Lavelle Quotes
Louis Lavelle was a French Catholic philosopher and one of the principal exponents of the philosophy of being and of participation in twentieth-century French thought. Long-time professor at the College de France and co-editor with Rene Le Senne of the influential Philosophie de l'Esprit series, he produced a long sequence of works including The Total Presence, Of Being, The Dialectic of the Eternal Present, and The Will to be Saved, in which the human being is understood as a participant in an absolute act of being that touches time at the always-renewed point of the present. The quotes below are attributed to Louis Lavelle, organized by topic.
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Louis Lavelle on God
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Attributed to Louis Lavelle:
“Being is the absolute act in which we participate.”
Louis Lavelle on Happiness
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“God alone has right of sovereignty over hearts. Neither secular powers, nor the Church herself, extend their dominion thus far. What passes there depends not on them. There God alone is King. It is His own proper realm. There He establishes His throne of grace. This interior kingdom it is that constitutes His glory. Our perfection and our happiness consist in the subjection of our heart to this empire of God. The more our heart submits to Him, the more perfect and the more happy shall we be.”
The Spiritual Doctrine of Father Louis Lallemant
Louis Lavelle on Knowledge
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“The Spiritual Doctrine of Father Louis Lallemant”
God alone has right of sovereignty over hearts. Neither secular powers, nor the Church herself, extend their dominion thus far. What passes there depends not on them. There God alone is King. It is His own proper realm. There He establishes His throne of grace. This interior kingdom it is that constitutes His glory. Our perfection and our happiness consist in the subjection of our heart to this em
Louis Lavelle on Love
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Attributed to Louis Lavelle:
“To exist is to participate; nothing is alone.”
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Attributed to Louis Lavelle:
“Love is the highest form of participation in being.”
Louis Lavelle on Mind
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Attributed to Louis Lavelle:
“The act of consciousness is itself an act of being.”
Louis Lavelle on Time
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Attributed to Louis Lavelle:
“The present is the threshold where eternity touches time.”