The home would serve for habitation as the hammer for the driving in of a nail or the pen for writing. For it does indeed belong to the gear consisting of things necessary for the life of man. It serves to shelter him from the inclemencies of the weather, to hide him from enemies or the importunate.
And yet, within the system of finalities in which human life maintains itself, the home occupies a privileged place. . . . The privileged role of the home does not consist in being the end of human activity but in being its condition, and in this sense its commencement.
- Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity
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