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" When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names “God,” this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned "

Jean-Luc Marion , God Without Being


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Jean-Luc Marion quote : When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names “God,” this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned