For the present let us remain keenly suspecting that the longing not to die, the hunger for personal immortality, the effort whereby we tend to persist indefinitely in our own being, which is, according to the tragic Jew, our very essence, that this is the affective basis of all knowledge and the personal inward starting-point of all human philosophy, wrought by a man and for men.
Gauden oraingoz honetan, ez hiltzeko antsia hau, hilezintasun pertsonalaren gosea, geure izatean mugagabeki irautera jotzen duguneko ahalegina eta, judu tragikoaren arauez, gure esentzia dena, gizonak gizonentzat mamituriko ezaguera ororen atxekimenduzko oinarria eta giza filosofia ororen barru-barruko abiapuntu pertsonala delako susmo oldartsuan.