For others, in spite of myself, from myself.
If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
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.