This form of knowledge is indeed, from its nature, quite incapable of apprehending that truth pure and in itself, and even stands in contradiction to it, yet in the form of a myth it received a substitute for it which was sufficient as a guide for conduct. For the myth enables the method of knowledge, in accordance with the principle of sufficient reason, to comprehend by figurative representation the ethical significance of conduct, which itself is ever foreign to it.
-Baina herriari egia handi hura, bere zedarritutasunean kontzebi zezakeen neurrian, arrazoiaren printzipioari darraion ezagutza-eran itzuli egin zitzaion, zeinak bere izaeraren arabera egia hura hutsik eta bere baitan ezin baitu inola ere hartu, erabateko kontraesanean baitago berarekin bakarrik mitoaren forman haren subrogatu batean jaso baitzuen, egintzaren araugarri gisa aski zelarik, horren esangura etikoa, zeinean bere buruarentzat beti arrotza den ezagutza-era hori arrazoiaren printzipioaren arabera, aurkezpen irudizkoaren bidez atzemangarri bihurtzen baitu;