Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

No reality transforms itself.

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.