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.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

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

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.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

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.