I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us -… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“The invitation to imitate the desire of Jesus may seem paradoxical, for Jesus does not claim to possess a desire proper, a… — René Girard Copy Share Image
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“Religion, then, is far from "useless." It humanizes violence; it protects man from his own violence by taking it out of his… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“The commandment to imitate Jesus does not appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation; rather it is addressed to everyone that… — René Girard Copy Share Image
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural… — René Girard Copy Share
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent… — René Girard Copy Share
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share
Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty. — Rene Girard Copy Share
I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that… — René Girard Copy Share
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was… — René Girard Copy Share
“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the project of… — René Girard Copy Share
“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural… — René Girard Copy Share
Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“We must renounce the gambit of "good" and "bad" - even in its inverted form. We must acknowledge that misapprehensions abound, that violence is… — René Girard Copy Share
