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

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

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.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

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.