On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual