The Body Is Our General Medium For

Theology Recognizes The Contingency Of Human Existence Only To Derive It From A Necessary Being, That Is, To Remove It. Theology Makes Use Of Philosophical Wonder Only For The Purpose Of Motivating An Affirmation Which Ends It. Philosophy, On The Other Hand, Arouses Us To What Is Problematic In Our Own Existence And In That Of The World, To Such A Point That We Shall Never Be Cured Of Searching For A Solution.

Lichtenberg ... Held Something Of The Following Kind: One Should Neither Affirm The Existence Of God Nor Deny It. ... It Is Not That He Wished To Leave Certain Perspectives Open, Nor To Please Everyone. It Is Rather That He Was Identifying Himself, For His Part, With A Consciousness Of Self, Of The World, And Of Others That Was "strange" (the Word Is His) In A Sense Which Is Equally Well Destroyed By The Rival Explanations.

Our View Of Man Will Remain Superficial So Long As We Fail To Go Back To That Origin [of Silence], So Long As We Fail To Find, Beneath The Chatter Of Words, The Primordial Silence, And As Long As We Do Not Describe The Action Which Breaks This Silence. The Spoken Word Is A Gesture, And Its Meaning, A World.

The Body Is Our General Medium For Having A World.

[the Sensate Body Possesses] An Art Of Interrogating The Sensible According To Its Own Wishes, An Inspired Exegesis.