Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

I find myself only by losing myself.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.