The Spectacle Is At The Same Time

Hope, Insofar As It Is Hope Of Resurrection, Is The Living Contradiction Of What It Proceeds From And What Is Placed Under The Sign Of The Cross And Death.

It Is Always Possible To Argue Against An Interpretation, To Confront Interpretations, To Arbitrate Between Them And To Seek For An Agreement, Even If This Agreement Remains Beyond Our Reach.

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.

For My Own Part, I Abandon The Ethics Of Duty To The Hegelian Critique With No Regrets; It Would Appear To Me, Indeed, To Have Been Correctly Characterized By Hegel As An Abstract Thought, As A Thought Of Understanding.

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.