"For if exclusive and excluding reason was wrong, then exclusive otherness, unequivocally Other, will be equally so. Far from bringing to light what is difficult out of darkness and silence, difficulty is brought to certainty. Certainty does not empower, it subjugates - for only thinking which has the ability to tolerate uncertainty is powerful, that is, non-violent. This principled otherness sent out to reform the world will expand a violence equal to the violence it accuses (reason) - and with an exceedingly good conscience."
Gillian Rose, "Introduction", Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays (New York: Verso Books, 2017), 4.
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