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.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

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.

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