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"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
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"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."
"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
"There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible."
"First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai."
"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."
"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
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