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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
We are all mediators, translators.
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.
Who ever said that one was born just once?
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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