“What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?”

“Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.”

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

“Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.”

“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.”

“Guilt cannot, in fact, express itself, except in the indirect language of "captivity" and "infection," inherited from the two prior stages. Thus both symbols are transposed "inward" to express a fr...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”