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

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

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

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we may feel we have been thrown and are wandering, lost. And yet it is against this background that we can begin, that is to say, give a new course to things.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.