And when the fact that poetry, language, was not only a medium for communication but could also be a passion and a joy—when this was revealed to me, I do not think I understood the words, but I felt that something was happening to me. It was happening not to my mere intelligence but to my whole being, to my flesh and blood.
The titles of the essays: Toward a hermeneutic of the Idea of Revelation; The Hermeneutics of Testimony; Freedom in the Light of Hope. Henceforth, the regeneration of freedom is inseparable from the movement by which the figures of hope are liberated from the idols of the market place, as Bacon put it. This whole process constitutes the philosophy of religion within the limits of reason alone; it is this process which constitutes the philosophical analogon of the kerygma of the Resurrection. It is also this process which constitutes the whole adventure of freedom and which permits us to give a comprehensible meaning to the expression "religious freedom." p.180
we cannot now expect a valid theory of obligation to a liberal democratic state in a possessive market society. p.275
"Now let the weeping cease; let no one mourn again. These things are bound in fate."
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss [21] And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, [25] And justifie the wayes of God to men. [26]
Dans de nombreux rituels, le sacrifice se présente de deux façons opposées, tantot comme une chose tres sainte dont on ne saurait s'abstenir sans negligence grave, tantot au contraire comme une espece de crime qu'on ne saurait commettre sans s'exposer a des risques également tres graves. p.9
Pour qu'un vaniteux desire un objet il suffit de le convaincre que cet objet est deja desire par un tiers aquel s'attache un certain prestige. La mediateur est ici un rival que la vanite a d'abord suscite qu'elle a pour ainsi dire, appele a son existence de rival avant d'en exiger la defaite. p.20-21
In truth history does not belong to us, we belong to it.
Truth is not merchandise -- Title of chapter 13