For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.