“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.”

Source: In Praise of Philosophy (1963), p. 46

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French phenomenological philosopher 1908–1961

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