Jefferson Chua’s Reviews > In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine > Status Update

"I am of an in fact certain existence, without however the slightest access to my presence nor to my ipseity, and this crisis can last my whole lifetime, for it finds a place (and its nonplace) in my memory."

"me and the alii [other] distinguish themselves from each other only by playing the same role: that of readers affected by their reading."

"[Confession] attest[s], contrary to what they intend, the incommensurable distance between myself and God, distance in which alone praise can be deployed."

"In the word spoken in praise, the dialogical space puts God and myself into relation. Emmanuel, put backwards: God with me, provided that I speak to him, myself toward him."

‎"Loving wisdom can mean for a Christian only loving God: 'verus philosophus est amator Dei' (The true philosopher is he who loves God). In short, philosophy is carried out only in the love of God."