“It is the notion that the soul is nothing present before but only after, and that, in its very ess-ence, it is historical and only in this way can it be rising from the decadence. Because of this root in the abyssal depth of the soul, Christianity has been the highest and unsurpassed rise of human being in the struggle with the po-ssibility of fall, but also something which has not yet been thought through to its end.”

• Jan Patocka