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"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
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"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."

"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."

"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."

"Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."

"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."

"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."

"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."

"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."

"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
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