If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

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.

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

I find myself only by losing myself.

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.

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.

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.