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"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
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"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
"The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless."
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"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
"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."
"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."
"There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible."
"Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner."
"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."
"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."
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