To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods. - Emmanuel Levinas

The theory of transparency was set up in reaction to the theory of mental images, of an inner tableu which the perception of an object would leave in us. In imagination our gaze always goes outward, but imagination modifies and neutralizes the gaze: the real world appears in it as it were between parenthesis or quote marks.

Fear for the Other, fear for the other man's death is my fear, but is in no way an individual's taking fright.

To be or not to be is not the question where transcendence is concerned. The statement of being's other, of the otherwise than being, claims to state a difference over and beyond that which separates being from nothingness — the very difference of the beyond, the difference of transcendence.