The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the i… - René Girard

The resemblance of Jesus to the prophets is perfectly real, and we will soon see that these resemblances are not restricted to the victims of collective violence in the Bible. In myths as well, the victims are or seem different.

Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.

I maintain that passion and desire are never authentic in the Heideggerean sense. They do not emerge from the depths of our being; we always borrow them from others. Far from seeing conflict as a sign of mastery, as Heidegger does, we must see it as exactly the opposite, a confirmation of the mimetic nature of our desires.