I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.