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The dictionary contains no metaphors.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

I find myself only by losing myself.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

What must be the nature of the world ... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.