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

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.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

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

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

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.

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.