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.