The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

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.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

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.

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.