Paul Ricoeur famous quotes

05-19-2025

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Meaningful #World #Life Is
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Destiny #Men #Differences
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Events #Demand #Testimony
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Way #Interpretation #Equal
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Law #World #Finals
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Resurrection #Spite
The dictionary contains no metaphors.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Metaphor #Dictionary
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Historical #Individual #Capable
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Men #Atheism #Hereafter
Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Giving #Testimony
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Moving #Validation #Two
I find myself only by losing myself.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Losing
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Umpires #Agreement #Arguing
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Wisdom #Jobs #Book
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Destiny #World #Myth
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Meaningful #Expression #Ordinary
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Philosophy #Decision #Path
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Wisdom #Expression #Literature
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Regret #Understanding #Ethics
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Order #Identity #Movement
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Destiny #Men #Self
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Mirrors #Self #Mirages
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Resurrection #Contradiction #Crosses
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Mouths #Narrative #Firsts
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Taken #Long #New Testament
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Men #Other Worlds #Understanding
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Today #Problem #Christianity
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
-- Paul Ricoeur

#Character #Identity #Narrative

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