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.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

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

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.