So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

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.

He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

You can't run away from yourself

I get beat up on every project.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.