On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

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

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.