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

Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we may feel we have been thrown and are wandering, lost. And yet it is against this background that we can begin, that is to say, give a new course to things.

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

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.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

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