But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

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

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.

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

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

I find myself only by losing myself.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

The light shines brighter on our path.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.

Be what you would seem to be.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.